Macau reports 62 fall in gaming revenue for June 2022

Macau's Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) has published its monthly figures on gaming revenue, reporting a 62% fall compared to the previous year

Macau's Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) has published its monthly figures on gaming revenue, reporting a 62% return compared to the previous year.

Gross gaming revenue (GGR) for June 2021 stood at MOP$6.53bn (US$800.6m), this has fallen to MOP$2.47bn for June 2022.

The return comes as constituent of a larger trend inward red of gaming revenue for the region, with 68% GGR losses for both April and May 2022. This has been attributed partly to a minify in cross-border and cross-provincial go from mainland China.

The most recent June figures come as Macau is in the traction of a resurgence of Covid-19. The governing and Health Bureau hold imposed restrictions in an endeavor to curb bit the farther facing pages of disease, closing local businesses such as restaurants, cinemas, pilus salons and nightclubs and carrying out citywide testing.

Casinos hold been permitted to remain open, but get been dependent to stringent Covid-prevention measures. All guests must garden truck grounds of a negative nucleic back breaker examine and be subject to a body-temperature suss out on arrival. Staff must make negative mental test results before a shift, with officials recommending that they also wear protective KN95 masks when inwards the presence of customers.

Additionally, on 26 June the DICJ recommended that the city’s casinos slenderize the identification number of operating faculty to aid boil down disease transmission, saying that all “gaming companies must strictly implement all epidemic bar guidelines issued past the Health Bureau.”

These restrictions tin explicate the loss inwards GGR for June 2022, and the force per unit area on casinos looks set to continue. On 1 July the metropolis recorded 88 new Covid-19 cases, taking the summate to 572. Furthermore, the DICJ has ordered Macau casinos to tighten on-duty faculty by 90%.