{"id":31549,"date":"2022-07-08T03:03:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T06:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=31549"},"modified":"2026-04-23T07:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:03:14","slug":"macau-covid-19-cases-rise-to-1303-in-latest-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-covid-19-cases-rise-to-1303-in-latest-outbreak","title":{"rendered":"Macau Covid-19 cases rise to 1,303 in latest outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Health authorities have reported that the number of Covid-19 cases in the latest outbreak had risen to 1,303 as of midnight on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.-\u00a0<strong>The city\u2019s Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre<\/strong>\u00a0had reported that the number of Covid-19 cases in the latest outbreak had risen to 1,303 as of Thursday night. Despite this, Cheong Kin Ian, head of police liaison and public affairs division of the Unitary Police Service, insists that a mainland-style full city lockdown is not planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new hotel has been added to the list of venues used for general quarantine. The Grand Hyatt Macau, at the City of Dreams, has designated 300 rooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities have been using 470 rooms in the east wing of the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/500-people-in-quarantine-at-grand-lisboa-palace\" target=\"_blank\">Grand Lisboa Palace<\/a>, which was closed after 13 cases of Covid-19 were linked to the property. More than 500 people have been locked down in the complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other two large casino hotels that have been used for general quarantine are <strong>the Sheraton Grand Macau<\/strong> and<strong> the Paris Hotel <\/strong>with 2,300 rooms. Both facilities are owned by Sands China Ltd. in Cotai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macaus-four-seasons-mall-closes-amid-covid-19-cases-among-staff\" target=\"_blank\">The Four Seasons mall<\/a>\u00a0was forced to temporarily close on Monday due to Covid-19 cases among its employees. Entertainment venues and outdoor recreation areas such as parks, gardens and beaches in Macau remain closed, but casinos, with the exception of SJM&#8217;s Grand Lisboa, remain open, operating at 10 per cent of normal staff levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In June, Macau recorded its&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-plunges-to-lowest-monthly-tally-of-the-year\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lowest level of gross gambling revenue<\/a>&nbsp;since September 2020. The figure was down 62.1 per cent year-on-year (June 2021: MOP6.54bn).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health authorities have reported that the number of Covid-19 cases in the latest outbreak had risen to 1,303 as of midnight on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":21514,"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 with 1,303 cases, leading to the designation of several casino hotels for quarantine and the closure of non-casino entertainment venues. Despite this, a full city lockdown is not planned, though casinos operate at 10% staff, contributing to a 62.1% year-on-year GGR decline in June, marking the lowest since September 2020.","focusai_entities":"Cheong Kin Ian, Unitary Police Service, Grand Hyatt Macau, City of Dreams, Grand Lisboa Palace, SJM, Sands China Ltd., Sheraton Grand Macau, Paris Hotel, Four Seasons mall","focusai_location":"Macau, China, Cotai","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Projected Q3 GGR Impact?","query":"What is the projected Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) impact for Q3 given the current operational constraints and quarantine measures in Macau?"},{"label":"Mitigating Financial Impact?","query":"How are Macau's integrated resorts mitigating the financial impact of reduced GGR and increased operational costs from property designations for quarantine?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-31549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31549","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=31549"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31591,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31549\/revisions\/31591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}