A Macau resident who returned from the United Kingdom has been diagnosed as Macau's 55th COVID-19 case, the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre has announced.
According to a statement by the centre last night, the 22-year-old female student tested positive for the novel coronavirus yesterday. The unvaccinated patient has been classified as an imported case. She had tested negative for COVID-19 in the UK on Thursday. She arrived in Macau from the UK via Singapore yesterday.
Meanwhile, a 24-year-old local male resident studying in Switzerland has been classified as a relapse case, the statement said. He had tested negative for COVID-19 in Switzerland on Thursday. He arrived in Macau from Switzerland via Singapore on the same flight (SCOOT TR904) as the female student from the UK yesterday. He had been diagnosed with COVID-19 in Switzerland in January. Consequently, the centre has temporarily classified the patient as a relapse case.
All arrivals from a foreign country in Macau are required to undergo a nucleic acid test (NAT).
The statement described both patients' condition as "normal". They are undergoing follow-up diagnoses and treatments at the Public Health Clinical Centre in Coloane, the statement said.
Macau confirmed its first COVID-19 case on January 22 last year.
Meanwhile, the centre has announced that 245,261 people had been vaccinated against COVID-19 as of 4 p.m. yesterday. While 127,092 people had received their first jab, 118,169 had been given their second jab.
According to the announcement, as of 4 p.m. yesterday the centre had been notified about 1,551 adverse events, including five serious ones.
As of yesterday, 0.43 percent of vaccinees in Macau had reported adverse events.
Based on Macau's population of 682,500 at the end of the first quarter, the special administrative region's vaccination rate stood at 35.9 percent yesterday. Experts say that Macau needs to reach a vaccination rate of at least 70 percent in order to achieve herd immunity.
