{"id":3040,"date":"2020-02-03T11:50:41","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T11:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=3040"},"modified":"2026-04-24T08:16:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:16:53","slug":"macau-coronavirus-casino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-coronavirus-casino","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: all Macau casino guests must wear masks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The decision was taken just days after the DICJ ordered all casino workers to wear respiratory face masks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macau.- The Macau Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) announced over the weekend that all guests entering any of the 41 casinos in the SAR must now wear a face mask or risk being asked to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the DICJ statement, \u201csix gaming companies have requested that all persons entering the casino wear masks from 11pm on 1 February at the request of the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau. If masks are not worn in the casino, the venue has the right to ask the relevant person to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The decision was taken shortly after the DICJ ordered all casino workers to <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-casino-masks-virus\">wear respiratory face masks<\/a><\/em><\/strong> under provisions of Law No. 2\/2004 on the Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Casino operators are also <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-casinos-pneumonia\">undertaking temperature tests<\/a><\/em><\/strong> at hundreds of guest and employee entrances in the bid to stop the virus from spreading further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new measure was taken after the eighth case of Coronavirus in Macau was confirmed.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision was taken just days after the DICJ ordered all casino workers to wear respiratory face masks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Macau Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) has mandated that all guests entering the SAR's 41 casinos must wear face masks, effective February 1st, following a similar directive for casino workers. This regulatory action, supported by six gaming operators, is a direct response to the eighth confirmed Coronavirus case in Macau, with operators also implementing temperature screening at entry points.","focusai_entities":"Macau Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ)","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Assessment","query":"What is the projected impact of these enhanced public health measures on Macau's daily GGR and NGR for Q1, considering potential reductions in footfall and operational friction?"},{"label":"Regulatory Enforcement Scope","query":"Beyond the initial mandate, what specific enforcement mechanisms and penalties are stipulated by the DICJ for non-compliant operators or individuals, and how will these be communicated?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,28,16338],"tags":[29,7299,257],"class_list":["post-3040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-casino","tag-coronavirus","tag-macau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3040"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3084,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3040\/revisions\/3084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}