provide accommodation<\/a><\/em><\/strong> for those that live outside of the city in mainland China as part of efforts to prevent the Coronavirus outbreak from spreading further.<\/p>\n\n\n\nReports suggest that the majority of Portuguese workers in Macau have opted to return home for the shutdown period in part due to cheaper flights as a result of the Coronavirus outbreak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Coronavirus has so far claimed the lives of 636 people in China, including one of the first doctors to warn of the outbreak.
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