{"id":31126,"date":"2022-06-24T05:37:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T08:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=31126"},"modified":"2026-04-23T07:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:27:17","slug":"macau-casinos-will-remain-open-despite-covid-19-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-casinos-will-remain-open-despite-covid-19-outbreak","title":{"rendered":"Macau casinos will remain open despite Covid-19 outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ho Iat Seng, Macau’s chief executive, has said that only venues where Covid-19 cases are detected will close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Macau.- Chief executive\u00a0Ho Iat Seng<\/strong>\u00a0has said that there will be no mass closure of casinos amid the latest outbreak of Covid-19 cases in Macau. Although authorities have announced the closure of most kinds of entertainment venues, only those casinos where Covid-19 cases are detected will close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During a press conference, Seng said: “We agreed with the casinos in 2020 that in case of any new confirmed cases found in a casino,\u00a0only this casino will suspend operation instead of all casinos<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added: \u201cWe are continuing to follow this arrangement and principle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For now, only\u00a0the Hotel and Casino Fortuna has been added to the list of Red Code lockdown areas<\/a>. That came after one of the hotel\u2019s workers reportedly tested positive. The Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ<\/strong> has pointed out that casinos must strictly comply with Covid-19 guidelines issued by the Health Bureau. Some 110 Covid-19 cases were confirmed as of Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ho Iat Seng\u00a0also announced the government would spend MOP10bn (US$1.25bn) in a new round of financial support measures. He said he has been preparing action plans for the pandemic, which will be announced in the following weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said: \u201cThe local economy will only restore to the pre-Covid-19 level when the pandemic in Macau is over when it is over in Mainland China and around the world.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ho Iat Seng, Macau’s chief executive, has said that only venues where Covid-19 cases are detected will close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":22076,"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's Chief Executive, Ho Iat Seng, has confirmed that only integrated resorts with detected COVID-19 cases will face operational suspension, rather than a blanket closure across the gaming vertical. This policy, established in 2020, currently impacts only Hotel and Casino Fortuna, which has been designated a 'Red Code' lockdown area. Concurrently, the government announced a MOP10bn (US$1.25bn) financial support package to bolster the local economy.","focusai_entities":"Ho Iat Seng, Hotel and Casino Fortuna, Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ), Health Bureau","focusai_location":"Macau, Mainland China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.8), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Operator Liquidity Impact","query":"What specific mechanisms will be employed for the MOP10bn financial support, and what is the projected impact on the liquidity and operational expenditure of Macau's concessionaires?"},{"label":"Red Code Criteria","query":"What are the precise epidemiological thresholds and operational criteria that trigger a 'Red Code' lockdown for an integrated resort, and how does the DICJ verify compliance?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16338,158],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-31126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31126","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=31126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31131,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31126\/revisions\/31131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}