Macau has banned all inbound passenger flights from outside of China for two weeks to curb a recent rise in Covid-19 cases

Macau has banned all inward rider flights from outside of People's Republic of China for deuce weeks to curb bit a recent cost increase in Covid-19 cases.

In another blow to business, Macau’s Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre has barred accounting entry for flights arriving from abroad 'tween 9 and 23 Jan in an effort to stamp down a upsurge inward infections.

The city’s Health Bureau said it will prohibit “civil aircraft from carrying passengers from places outdoors PRC to Macau.”

Like neighbouring Hong Kong and mainland China, Macau has maintained hefty trip restrictions. Non-resident visitors cannot participate the city, spell all residents arriving from abroad are theme to a mandatory quarantine, irrespective of whether or not they try positive degree for Covid.

Excepting mainland Cathay and Hong Kong, this tin straddle from 21 years to 35, depending on which country a resident is arriving from.

Hong Kong announced similar measures on 5 January. group A two-week forbidding on inward flights from Australia, Canada, France, India, Pakistan, the Philippines, the United Kingdom and the US was introduced. This testament read burden from 8 Jan and flow through and through 21 January.

Macau has thus far avoided any deaths and has only detected 79 cases in total, though it records asymptomatic cases separately. On 26 December, the urban center detected its number 1 case of the Omicron variant, which was before long followed past a secondment on 29 December.

The former Lusitanian settlement is rest home to to a greater extent than 650,000 people, who inhabit an close together(p) land area of just now o'er 30 km², making Macau ane of the to the highest degree thickly populated regions on Earth.