Macao officials are taking drastic measures due to a COVID-19 outbreak causing the city extend a casino shutdown.
The casino closures in Macao that were expected to expire on Monday will now be extended until Friday, July 22.has Macao largely restricting people to their homes.
All businesses have been ordered to shut with the only exceptions being supermarkets and essential services. Residents must stay home unless they fit into food, shopping or essential categories. / AP Newsroom), is following a version of China's "zero-COVID" strategy. That involves locking down buildings that have cases and conducting repeated rounds of mass testing to find and isolate infected individuals.Macao, a city of 680,000 people is facing its first sizable outbreak of the pandemic.
The Venetian Macao casino resorts in Macao. The Asian gambling center of Macao will close all its casinos for a week starting Monday, July 11, and largely restrict people to their homes as it tries to stop a COVID-19 outbreak that has infected more tMacau has recorded around 1,700 coronavirus infections since mid-June. More than 20,000 people are in mandatory quarantine, according to Reuters.The measures announced a week ago expand on restrictions that have been in place since June 23.
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