{"id":32276,"date":"2022-08-02T02:52:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T05:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=32276"},"modified":"2026-04-23T06:20:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T09:20:41","slug":"macau-to-ease-quarantine-requirements-from-august-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-to-ease-quarantine-requirements-from-august-6","title":{"rendered":"Macau to ease quarantine requirements from August 6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The quarantine period will be reduced to seven days for arrivals from outside of China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- Authorities in Macau have announced that from August 6, the\u00a0<strong>quarantine requirement for visitors to Macau\u00a0<\/strong>will be reduced from ten days to seven days for those arriving from Hong Kong, Taiwan or overseas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the new entry quarantine rules, travellers must still test &#8220;negative&#8221; for Covid-19 on arrival or they will be quarantined in a medical facility. Visitors must also conduct <strong>three days of self-monitoring<\/strong> during which their electronic health code will appear as &#8220;yellow&#8221;, meaning they cannot enter certain locations, including government offices, restaurants and leisure facilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ho Iat Seng<\/strong>, the city&#8217;s chief executive, has also ended the &#8216;state of immediate prevention&#8217; declared upon the start of the latest Covid-19 outbreak on June 19. Due to the latest outbreak,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-plunges-to-lowest-monthly-tally-since-2003\" target=\"_blank\">GGR for July<\/a>\u00a0was down<strong>\u00a083.9 per cent\u00a0<\/strong>month-on-month from MOP2.48bn to MOP398m (US$49.2m). The figure was the lowest since 2003 when city authorities began publishing monthly figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, senior health official<strong>\u00a0Leong Iek Hou<\/strong>\u00a0confirmed that the KN95 or N95 mask requirements\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-extends-consolidation-phase-until-august-2\" target=\"_blank\">will be dropped from today<\/a>\u00a0and that shopping malls and interior decoration firms could resume operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quarantine period will be reduced to seven days for arrivals from outside of China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":22443,"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 has reduced its quarantine period for arrivals from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and overseas to seven days, effective August 6, alongside a three-day self-monitoring requirement. This policy adjustment follows a significant 83.9% month-on-month decline in July's Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) to MOP398m, the lowest since 2003, attributed to a recent COVID-19 outbreak.","focusai_entities":"Ho Iat Seng, Leong Iek Hou","focusai_location":"Macau, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan","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 (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Recovery Trajectory?","query":"What is the projected impact of the reduced quarantine period on Macau's GGR recovery trajectory for Q3 and Q4, considering the persistent self-monitoring requirements?"},{"label":"Operator Operational Adjustments?","query":"How are integrated resort operators in Macau adjusting their operational models, staffing, and marketing spend in response to the revised entry protocols and the recent GGR performance?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,23876],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-32276","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\/32276","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=32276"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32303,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32276\/revisions\/32303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}