Macau's Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre has announced that in response to the changes of the COVID-19 situation, the criteria for setting up a lockdown zone (red-coded zone) has been adjusted from buildings with two positive COVID-19 cases to be subject to control measures, to buildings with two flats or two families (collectively living in more than one room) with positive cases to be subject to control measures.
People living in a red-coded zone are not allowed the leave the building where they live during the lockdown.
Under the new criteria, buildings with only one flat or one family with positive COVID-19 cases to be subject to control measures will be classified as a precautionary zone (yellow-coded zone). Buildings that were originally classified as a lockdown zone (red-coded zone) that do not fulfil the new criteria will be re-classified as a precautionary zone (yellow-coded zone) after completion of at least one nucleic acid test (NAT).
People in yellow-coded zones are allowed to leave the building where they live but they are not allowed to enter a range of buildings, businesses and facilities such as restaurants, shops, government offices. Neither are they allowed to take a public bus. However, they can take a taxi but are required to inform the cabbie of their yellow Macau Health Code status.
