{"id":28254,"date":"2022-03-21T09:36:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T12:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=28254"},"modified":"2026-04-23T10:21:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:21:35","slug":"macau-tightens-covid-19-test-requirements-for-zhuhai-arrivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-tightens-covid-19-test-requirements-for-zhuhai-arrivals","title":{"rendered":"Macau tightens Covid-19 test requirements for Zhuhai arrivals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Visitors entering from Zhuhai now have to show a negative Covid-19 test issued within 24 hours before arrival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- Visitors entering Macau from Zhuhai\u00a0in the neighbouring province of Guangdong must hold a negative nucleic acid Covid-19 test certificate issued within 24 hours prior to arrival. The new measure was imposed on March 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The announcement was made by\u00a0<strong>the Macau Novel Coronavirus Response Coordination Centre\u00a0<\/strong>due to a rise in Covid-19 cases in mainland China. Last week, authorities in China reported 1,226 new cases of domestically transmitted Covid-19 infections. Macau <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-casino-stocks-fall-further-as-china-intensifies-covid-19-measures\" target=\"_blank\">casino operator stocks<\/a> fell sharply as a result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China remains the only country with a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/covid-19-vaccine-passports-could-speed-up-macau-tourism-recovery\" target=\"_blank\">largely quarantine-free travel bubble<\/a>\u00a0with Macau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Macau visitor arrivals down 5.6% in February<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities in Macau have reported that\u00a0<strong>655,505 tourists visited the city in February<\/strong>. The figure was down 5.6 per cent when compared to the previous month, despite\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-chinese-new-year-ggr-up-60-year-on-year\" target=\"_blank\">the Chinese New Year<\/a>\u00a0holiday. The number of tourists from mainland China rose 60 per cent year-on-year to 609,249, of which 196,523 entered on individual visitor visas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visitors entering from Zhuhai now have to show a negative Covid-19 test issued within 24 hours before arrival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Macau has implemented stricter COVID-19 testing requirements for visitors from Zhuhai, mandating a negative nucleic acid test within 24 hours of arrival, effective March 18. This measure, prompted by a rise in mainland China's COVID-19 cases, led to a sharp decline in Macau casino operator stocks. The new restrictions are expected to further impact visitor arrivals, which already saw a 5.6% month-on-month decrease in February despite the Chinese New Year holiday.","focusai_entities":"","focusai_location":"Macau, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), operator_casino (0.98), marketing_crm (0.75), investor_analyst (0.97), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Analysis?","query":"What is the projected impact of these new travel restrictions on Macau's Q1 and Q2 GGR, and how does this compare to pre-pandemic recovery trajectories?"},{"label":"Operator Exposure?","query":"Which specific Macau concessionaires are most exposed to visitor volume fluctuations from Zhuhai and Guangdong, and what are their mitigating strategies?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,23876],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-28254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-social-news","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28254"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28261,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28254\/revisions\/28261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}