{"id":31292,"date":"2022-06-30T03:34:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T06:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=31292"},"modified":"2026-04-23T07:17:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:17:55","slug":"macau-covid-19-cases-continue-to-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-covid-19-cases-continue-to-rise","title":{"rendered":"Macau Covid-19 cases continue to rise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Sheraton Grand Macao at the Londoner Macao casino resort on Cotai has been added to the list of hotels used for quarantine purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The number of new Covid-19 cases in Macau continues to grow. In the last 24 hours, authorities reported <strong>88 new cases<\/strong>, taking the number of cases reported in the latest outbreak to 572.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities have added the Earth Tower, the second tower of the Sheraton Grand Macao hotel at the Londoner Macao casino resort on Cotai to the list of hotels being used for quarantine purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government is already using the 2,300 hotel rooms at the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/the-parisian-macao-casino-resort-used-as-quarantine-accommodation\" target=\"_blank\">Parisian Macao casino resort<\/a>\u00a0as a quarantine accommodation. Meanwhile, the Hotel and Casino Fortuna was\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/concern-grows-as-covid-19-cases-in-macau-rise-to-49\" target=\"_blank\">added to the list of Red Code lockdown areas<\/a>\u00a0after one of the hotel workers reportedly tested positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite being one of Macau&#8217;s biggest Covid-19 outbreaks to date, authorities have decided to keep casinos open, a measure that has been criticised by\u00a0<strong>Cloee Chao<\/strong>, president of the New Macau Gaming Staff Rights Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chao told Macau News Agency that&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-casino-workers-call-for-venues-to-close-amid-covid-19-outbreak\" target=\"_blank\">casinos should temporarily shut their doors<\/a>&nbsp;arguing&nbsp;<strong>casinos currently have almost no guests<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Casino operators have been ordered to request a<strong>\u00a0negative Covid-19 test result\u00a0<\/strong>issued within the previous 48 hours from all visitors. Customers will also have their body temperature taken and must present a health-declaration statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sheraton Grand Macao at the Londoner Macao casino resort on Cotai has been added to the list of hotels used for quarantine purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":21776,"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 is experiencing a significant COVID-19 outbreak, leading to several casino-resort hotels, including parts of the Sheraton Grand Macao and Parisian Macao, being designated for quarantine. Despite rising cases and criticism from labor associations, authorities have opted to keep casinos operational, implementing stricter entry protocols such as mandatory negative tests and health declarations for visitors. The Hotel and Casino Fortuna has also been placed under lockdown due to a positive case.","focusai_entities":"Sheraton Grand Macao, Londoner Macao, Parisian Macao, Hotel and Casino Fortuna, Cloee Chao, New Macau Gaming Staff Rights Association, Macau News Agency","focusai_location":"Macau, Cotai","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":"GGR Impact Analysis","query":"What is the estimated impact on Macau's Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) for the current quarter, considering the ongoing operational restrictions, reduced visitation, and the designation of integrated resort properties for quarantine purposes?"},{"label":"Regulatory Compliance Burden","query":"How are the new mandatory testing and health declaration protocols impacting the operational compliance burden and associated costs for Macau's licensed casino operators, particularly concerning B2C licensing adherence?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,23876],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-31292","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\/31292","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=31292"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31332,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31292\/revisions\/31332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}