{"id":3421,"date":"2020-02-12T13:21:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T13:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=3421"},"modified":"2026-04-24T07:56:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:56:57","slug":"casino-workers-diagnosed-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/casino-workers-diagnosed-coronavirus","title":{"rendered":"Two casino workers diagnosed with Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to the Malaysian Health Bureau, a 31-year-old patient works at Melco&#8217;s City of Dreams in Macau. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Malaysia.- A Malaysian man who works for Melco\u2019s City of Dreams Macau has been diagnosed with Coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Malaysia&#8217;s Health Bureau, the 31-year-old patient had visited Zhuhai several times when he was in Macau, before returning home to Malaysia on 1 February when he was diagnosed with the deadly virus two days later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We believe the chances that he infected other people in Macau is very low,&#8221; officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not the only Coronavirus case confirmed in Malaysia this week. A 35-year-old Singapore resident who works at Resorts World Sentosa has contracted the virus, now officially known as Covid-19.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The casino worker first reported symptoms on February 5 but only went for check-up at a local healthcare clinic on February 9. He was transferred to Tan Tock Seng Hospital and is now being treated in isolation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Malaysian Health Bureau, a 31-year-old patient works at Melco&#8217;s City of Dreams in Macau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Two casino employees, one from Melco's City of Dreams Macau and another from Resorts World Sentosa Singapore, have been diagnosed with Covid-19. This development raises immediate concerns regarding operational continuity and public health protocols within integrated resort environments in key Asian gaming jurisdictions.","focusai_entities":"Melco, City of Dreams, Resorts World Sentosa","focusai_location":"Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, Zhuhai","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.85), operator_casino (1.0), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Operational Impact Assessment","query":"What specific operational protocols and contingency plans are Melco and Resorts World Sentosa implementing to mitigate further transmission and ensure business continuity amidst confirmed Covid-19 cases?"},{"label":"Regulatory Response","query":"How are Macau and Singaporean gaming regulators assessing the public health risk within integrated resorts, and what enhanced compliance measures are being mandated for licensed operators?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,28,16333],"tags":[7299,257,226],"class_list":["post-3421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-casino-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-macau","tag-malaysia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3421"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3425,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3421\/revisions\/3425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}