Macau's visitor arrivals dropped by 47.8 percent month-on-month to 328,245 in October, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced.
A DSEC statement on Monday attributed the decline to tightened COVID-19 travel restrictions between Zhuhai and Macau between early and mid-October.
Year-on-year, last month's visitor arrivals feel by 43.6 percent.
Same-day visitors (216,829) and overnight visitors (111,416) decreased by 20.8 percent and 63.9 percent year-on-year respectively.
Mainlanders accounted for 91.6 percent of all visitor arrivals in October.
Only 11,843 visitors arrived by air last month.
In the first 10 months, visitor arrivals rose by 32.2 percent to 6.08 million.
Macau's COVID-19 tally stands at 77. All cases were imported or linked to imported cases, according to the Macau Health Bureau (SSM). No novel coronavirus fatalities have been reported. Macau confirmed its first case of the disease on January 22 last year.
