The Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) said in a statement yesterday that in response to the development of the COVID-19 pandemic and the changes in the government’s prevention and control measures tackling the novel coronavirus, visits to the city’s care homes for senior citizens and rehabilitation centres for different kinds of users will gradually resume from tomorrow.
Due to the different conditions of the COVID-19 patients’ physical recovery and the actual COVID-19 prevention and control needs, the statement said that in the process of resuming routine visits, the care homes and rehabilitation centres will, according to their specific conditions, decide whether to require their visitors to present a negative rapid antigen test (RAT) result valid within two hours when entering the facilities, set up visiting areas or allow their visitors to enter rooms for bedside visits, or to formulate other rules that visitors should abide by during their visit.
The bureau urged the public to strictly comply with the COVID-19 prevention requirements set out by the care homes and rehabilitation centres, such as to wear facemasks and undergo a temperature check when entering the premises. The bureau added that people with general symptoms such as fever, fatigue and myalgia (muscular pain), or respiratory symptoms such as sore throat, nasal congestion, runny nose and cough should not visit the facilities which could refuse them entry, or ask them to leave the premises.
This undated file photo taken from Caritas Macau’s website yesterday shows the Caritas Macau Sunshine Centre on Avenida de Artur Tamagnini Barbosa.
