The government’s Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre announced in a statement last night that it has decided to extend the transition period for residents to add their home address to their Macau Health Code by one more week so that the deadline when they must fill in their address will now be postponed to next Wednesday, after considering that “some residents have still not added their address” to the code.
Under the initial schedule, residents would have had to have added their home address to their Macau Health Code by today – after a 14-day transition period, otherwise they would not have been able to get the code generated on their smartphones.
Last night’s statement said that the seven-day extension of the Macau Health Code’s new address function was needed “so as not to affect residents crossing the borders and entering the city’s [various] premises”.
The statement urged residents who have still not added their address to their Macau Health Code to complete the registration “as soon as possible” before the new deadline on January 27.
The statement said that since the government relaunched the Macau Health Code’s new address function on January 5, as of 4 p.m. yesterday 479,663 people had added their address to the code.
The new function of adding one’s address to the Macau Health Code was initially slated to start on Christmas Eve. However, the government suspended the new function later the same day after a 40-minute technical malfunction occurred on the Macau Health Code system when residents were not able to have the health code generated on their smartphones. After the Health Bureau’s (SSM) technical team “rectified the issue” which previously affected the code system’s server, the government relaunched the new address function on January 5.
In addition to local residents, the new address requirement will also apply to non-locals living or staying in Macau, who will need to indicate the address of the place where they usually stay, such as workplaces, casinos or hotels.
Macau has not confirmed a new COVID-19 case for 207 days, according to official statistics.
This screenshot taken last night shows the interface for users to fill in their address on the Macau Health Code.
