The Education and Youth Development Bureau (DSEDJ) announced in a statement yesterday that private supplementary education support centres (tutorial centres) and private education institutions (continuing education) (education centres) can gradually resume operations starting today.
According to the statement, the gradual resumption is in line with Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng’s Executive Order No. 139/2022 published in the Official Gazette (BO). It is also in accordance with the technical guidelines on Measures to Reduce the Risk of Transmission of COVID-19 in the Workplace during the Stabilisation Period of Epidemic Prevention and Control in Macau issued by the Health Bureau’s (SSM) Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, which can be viewed at https://www.ssm.gov.mo/docs2/file/pv/Uchp5zh8Il8VdbnOJLVgw/ch.
The statement noted that the resumption’s conditions must also strictly follow COVID-19 pandemic prevention measures.
The DSEDJ pointed out that the institutions mentioned must strictly follow provisions in the guidelines such as requiring customers or service users to provide a nucleic acid test (NAT) certificate or a proof of negative result within three days from the sampling date. For example, “having a nucleic acid test on the day of receiving the service or within the past two days”.
They must also follow the requirements for the management of the venue’s service arrangements, the measures to take during meals and the specific NAT requirements for working groups, the statement added.
The statement said that the management must be strengthened to ensure that the institutions’ operations are in line with the government’s pandemic prevention measures.
