Macau has confirmed its 54th COVID-19 case, a 20-year-old local woman studying in the United Kingdom who returned to Macau on Saturday, the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre announced in a statement yesterday.
According to the statement, the woman tested negative for COVID-19 in a nucleic acid test (NAT) in the UK on Wednesday, before she departed for Macau on Friday via Singapore.
Upon arrival in Macau on Saturday, the statement said, the woman underwent a nucleic acid test, which showed that she “weakly” tested positive for COVID-19. In addition, she “weakly” tested positive for IgM antibodies and negative for IgG antibodies in a serology test. Consequently, the statement said, the woman has been confirmed as a COVID-19 case.
According to the statement, the woman told the Health Bureau (SSM) that she had not been confirmed as a COVID-19 patient in the UK and not been inoculated against COVID-19 there.
The statement said that the woman has not come down with typical COVID-19 symptoms such as fever, cough and shortness of breath. She has meanwhile been taken to the Health Bureau’s Public Health Clinical Centre in Coloane for isolation treatment.
Macau confirmed its first COVID-19 case on January 22 last year. All 54 cases confirmed so far have been classified by the Health Bureau as imported or as “connected to imported cases”. Macau’s novel coronavirus death toll stands at zero.
325,418 COVID-19 jabs
Meanwhile, the centre announced in another statement yesterday that as of 4 p.m. yesterday, 325,418 doses of COVID-19 vaccine had been administered to 228,119 people in Macau, comprising 129,454 who had received their first jab and 98,665 who had received their second jab.
Macau’s COVID-19 vaccination rate stood at 33.4 percent as of 4 p.m. yesterday – i.e. about one-third of the population has received at least one jab.
A total of 22 adverse events were reported in the past 24 hours (until 4 p.m. yesterday). The total number of adverse events since the start of the vaccination drive stood at 1,364, or 0.42 percent of the total number of jabs, including four serious cases.
This undated filed photo from the Government Information Bureau (GCS) shows the Health Bureau’s (SSM) Public Health Clinical Centre, which is located on Coloane Hill.
