{"id":4710,"date":"2020-03-20T11:08:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T11:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=4710"},"modified":"2026-04-24T06:56:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:56:02","slug":"marina-bay-sands-casino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/marina-bay-sands-casino","title":{"rendered":"Marina Bay Sands imposes casino restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Casino operator taking additional steps to ensure that guests and visitors are properly protected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Singapore.- The operator of Singapore casino resort, <em><strong>Marina Bay Sands<\/strong><\/em>, has imposed additional measures to prevent the spread of Coronavirus at the property. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Measures include social distancing and crowd control at&nbsp;its gaming venue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a spokeperson, this measures came in force in January, when the virus began to spread in the Asia Pacific Region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Singapore has two casino complexes: Marina Bay Sands, operated by Marina Bay Sands Pte Ltd, a unit of United States-based Las Vegas Sands Corp; and Resorts World Sentosa, operated by Resorts World at Sentosa Pte Ltd, a unit of Genting Singapore Ltd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Singapore\u2019s Ministry of Health reported 32 new cases of the Covid-19 infection yesterday,<\/strong><\/em> bringing the city-state\u2019s total to 345. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Singapore\u2019s first case of the virus infection \u2013 announced&nbsp;on January 23 \u2013 was a 66-year-old Chinese national from Wuhan, who had arrived the city-state with his family on January 20. He has since been discharged, according to the local government data.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casino operator taking additional steps to ensure that guests and visitors are properly protected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Marina Bay Sands, a prominent Singaporean casino resort operated by Las Vegas Sands Corp., has implemented enhanced social distancing and crowd control measures within its gaming venue to mitigate the spread of Coronavirus. These operational adjustments, initiated in January, reflect a proactive response to public health concerns impacting the Asia Pacific region and the broader gaming industry.","focusai_entities":"Marina Bay Sands, Marina Bay Sands Pte Ltd, Las Vegas Sands Corp, Resorts World Sentosa, Resorts World at Sentosa Pte Ltd, Genting Singapore Ltd, Singapore\u2019s Ministry of Health","focusai_location":"Singapore, Asia Pacific Region, Wuhan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.85), operator_casino (0.95), investor_analyst (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Assessment","query":"What is the projected impact of these social distancing and crowd control measures on Marina Bay Sands' Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) and Net Gaming Revenue (NGR) for the current fiscal quarter, and how does this affect EBITDA forecasts?"},{"label":"Regulatory Mandate Origin","query":"Were these operational adjustments proactively implemented by Marina Bay Sands, or were they mandated by Singaporean regulatory bodies or the Ministry of Health, indicating a shift in B2C licensing compliance expectations?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,28,16333],"tags":[29,169],"class_list":["post-4710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-casino-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-casino","tag-singapore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4710","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=4710"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777013751,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4710\/revisions\/777013751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}