{"id":4584,"date":"2020-03-18T12:09:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T12:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=4584"},"modified":"2026-04-24T06:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:59:10","slug":"macau-close-borders-coronavirus-casinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-close-borders-coronavirus-casinos","title":{"rendered":"Macau closes borders after new Coronavirus case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Macau in lockdown after a Spanish businessman and returning resident tested positive for Covid-19. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- After 40 days without any new cases of <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/topics\/coronavirus\">Coronavirus<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, Macau has once again closed its borders to all non-residents after Covid-19 was detected in two people.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lockdown applies to all non-residents, except blue-card holders and <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-tourism-gaming\">residents from greater China<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to local media, Macau\u2019s 12th case of Coronavirus yesterday with a 47-year-old Spanish businessman testing positive after arriving in the city from Beijing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second confirmed case is a 20-year-old resident who flow from London and entered Macau via Hong Kong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSeveral thousand students who are studying abroad might come back to Macau and we have to concentrate our medical resources on them,\u201d Health Bureau Director, Lei Chin Ion, said.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macau in lockdown after a Spanish businessman and returning resident tested positive for Covid-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3879,"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 re-entered a lockdown for non-residents following the detection of two new COVID-19 cases, ending a 40-day period without infections. This measure, prompted by a Spanish businessman and a returning resident testing positive, restricts entry to all non-residents except blue-card holders and those from greater China.","focusai_entities":"Health Bureau, Lei Chin Ion","focusai_location":"Macau, Spain, China, Beijing, London, Hong Kong","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.85), operator_casino (0.98), marketing_crm (0.75), investor_analyst (0.97), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Macau GGR Impact?","query":"What is the projected impact of this lockdown on Macau's Q3 Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) and the stock performance of listed concessionaires?"},{"label":"Operator Mitigation Strategies?","query":"What specific operational adjustments are Macau's integrated resorts implementing to mitigate revenue loss and ensure staff welfare during this renewed period of border restrictions?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,16338,156,158],"tags":[227,7299,257],"class_list":["post-4584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-east-asia-news","category-regulation-news","category-slider-home","tag-china","tag-coronavirus","tag-macau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584","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=4584"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4629,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584\/revisions\/4629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}