The Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) will enforce circuit breaker if locally-transmitted COVID-19 cases are reported, an SAR government official said on Monday.
Ao Ieong U, secretary for social affairs and culture of Macao, made the remarks at a press conference, given the recently reported COVID-19 cases in places of Guangdong Province in the mainland, which borders Macao.
A circuit breaker means restrictions will be imposed on cross-border personnel flow, according to Ao.
Ao called on Macao residents to avoid traveling to epidemic-struck regions unless under urgent or necessary circumstances.
She also called on more local residents to be inoculated with COVID-19 vaccines in order to help build up community immunity as soon as possible.
Starting Monday, patients with fevers of unknown reasons will have to take nucleic acid tests at three major local hospitals if they seek medical help there, said Lo Iek Long, director of the Macao Health Bureau.
As of Monday, no locally-transmitted COVID-19 cases had been reported in Macao for consecutive 428 days. So far, a total of 51 confirmed cases had been reported in the SAR.
