A local resident who returned to Macau from the United Kingdom on Monday has tested positive for COVID-19, Macau’s Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre announced yesterday.
The centre has classified the case as imported and asymptomatic, because of which it has not been added to Macau’s novel coronavirus tally, which therefore remains at 82.
However, the case has raised Macau’s asymptomatic COVID-19 tally to 88.
According to a statement by the centre yesterday, the patient is a 20-year-old woman who has received three mRNA jabs. She tested negative for COVID-19 in a nucleic acid test (NAT) in the UK on Saturday.
The woman flew from London to Singapore on Sunday and caught a connecting flight to Macau the next day, the statement said.
The woman underwent a COVID-19 nucleic acid test (NAT) upon arrival at the local airport on Monday, but it came up with an uncertain result, after which she was transferred to the Health Bureau’s (SSM) Public Health Clinical Centre in Coloane for quarantine. However, according to the statement, she tested positive for the novel coronavirus in a follow-up test on Tuesday, because of which she is now continuing her stay at the Public Health Clinical Centre for treatment.
