half-year results<\/a><\/em><\/strong> last week, said it had been granted a permit to reopen and was now preparing to resume operations at its City of Dreams venue.<\/p>\n\n\n\nCity of Dreams closed on March 16 when Manila entered Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ). In June, Melco was allowed to operate a dry run of its gaming and hospitality operations with a limited number of participants, but that came to an end on August 3 when President Rodrigo Duterte reimposed stricter measures in Metro Manila due to a spike in Covid-19 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Melco said in a release: “City of Dreams Manila is preparing for the resumption of its normal operations in accordance with the terms and conditions of this new guideline.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Monday, the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Disease (IATF-EID) recommended retaining Metro Manila and two nearby provinces under general community quarantine (GCQ).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Venues in other areas in the country that remain under stricter MECQ may not yet reopen, a PAGCOR spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Approved casinos will be able to operate at 30 per cent capacity while the city remains under General Community Quarantine (GCQ).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) has authorized select Metro Manila casinos, including Melco's City of Dreams, to resume operations at 30% capacity under General Community Quarantine. This reopening is contingent on local government permits and adherence to stringent health and safety protocols, marking a cautious, phased return for integrated resorts following previous closures.","focusai_entities":"Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR), Melco International Development, City of Dreams Manila, Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Disease (IATF-EID)","focusai_location":"Philippines, Metro Manila, Manila","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (1.0), affiliate_publisher (0.7), product_ux (0.7), tech_data (0.7), marketing_crm (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Capacity Expansion Outlook","query":"What are the projected timelines and key performance indicators PAGCOR will evaluate to consider increasing operational capacity beyond 30% for integrated resorts in Metro Manila?"},{"label":"Financial Impact Analysis","query":"How will the 30% operational capacity impact the Q3\/Q4 GGR and NGR projections for listed integrated resort operators in the Philippines, considering fixed overheads and reduced footfall?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,161,158,16333],"tags":[1428,405,128],"class_list":["post-9509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-daily-news","category-slider-home","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-manila","tag-pagcor","tag-philippines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9509","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=9509"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777010504,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9509\/revisions\/777010504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}