{"id":35151,"date":"2022-11-07T13:04:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T16:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=35151"},"modified":"2026-04-23T03:12:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:12:55","slug":"macau-extends-covid-19-test-validity-for-people-travelling-from-zhuhai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-extends-covid-19-test-validity-for-people-travelling-from-zhuhai","title":{"rendered":"Macau extends Covid-19 test validity for people travelling from Zhuhai"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Authorities have extended the validity of negative Covid-19 tests from 24 hours to 48 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- Covid-19 nucleic acid tests for those intending to travel between Macau and the neighbouring city of <strong>Zhuhai<\/strong>, in mainland China, will now be valid for 48 hours instead of 24. For travellers entering Macau from other parts of China validity remains 7 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Macau carried out two rounds of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-carries-out-mass-covid-19-testing-again\" target=\"_blank\">mass Covid-19 testing<\/a>&nbsp;last week and found no new cases of Covid-19. Two &#8216;imported&#8217; cases had been identified on October 26 in people travelling regularly to Zhuhai. Eight associated cases were detected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ongoing Covid-19 outbreak in Guangdong province has delayed the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/mgto-expects-package-tours-from-mainland-china-to-resume-in-november\" target=\"_blank\">resumption of package tours<\/a>&nbsp;from mainland China to Macau.&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-package-tour-resumption-delayed-due-to-new-covid-19-cases\" target=\"_blank\">The delay<\/a>&nbsp;was confirmed by Macau Tourist Guide Association president&nbsp;<strong>Angelina Wu Wai Fong<\/strong>, but she said she is confident package tours will resume this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mainland China continues to be the only country to have a&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/covid-19-vaccine-passports-could-speed-up-macau-tourism-recovery\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">largely quarantine-free travel bubble<\/a>&nbsp;with Macau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities have extended the validity of negative Covid-19 tests from 24 hours to 48 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26406,"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 authorities have extended the validity of COVID-19 nucleic acid tests for travel between Macau and Zhuhai from 24 to 48 hours, while other mainland China travel remains at 7 days. This adjustment follows recent mass testing with no new local cases, though an outbreak in Guangdong province has delayed the resumption of package tours, which are still expected to resume this month.","focusai_entities":"Angelina Wu Wai Fong, Macau Tourist Guide Association","focusai_location":"Macau, Zhuhai, China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (0.95), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Macau GGR Impact","query":"What is the projected impact of these revised travel protocols and the anticipated resumption of package tours on Macau's Q4 GGR and NGR performance, considering the current gaming verticals?"},{"label":"Operator Recovery Outlook","query":"How do these travel adjustments influence the recovery timelines, operational strategies, and capital expenditure plans for key integrated resort operators in Macau?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-35151","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\/35151","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=35151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35189,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35151\/revisions\/35189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}