The Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre said in a statement this afternoon that a person working in Macau has tested positive for COVID-19 in Zhuhai.
According to the statement, the centre was informed about the case by its counterpart in Zhuhai earlier today.
The centre pointed out that even though the person, whose gender was not revealed, tested negative for the disease more than ten times in Macau before Thursday (August 4), the risk of transmission where the person lived and worked could not be ruled out.
Therefore, the centre said, the building where the person lived until August 4, Block 1 of Polytec Garden in the Macau peninsula's northern Areia Preta district, was sealed off around 1 p.m. The block's residents are undergoing mandatory nucleic acid tests (NATs), the statement pointed out.
The person worked in the bakery of Grand Mart supermarket in Taipa, the centre said.
The statement underlined that the person had commuted between Macau and Zhuhai recently.
People in the vicinity of Grand Mart will undergo mandatory NATs as well, the statement said.
About 100,000 people working in Macau live in the adjacent city of Zhuhai in Guangdong province, according to official sources.
As of 3:30 p.m. today, Macau's COVID-19 tally since January 22, 2020 stood at 791 confirmed and 1,387 asymptomatic cases, of which 777 and 1,237 had been cured, according to the centre. Since January 2020 Macau has recorded six COVID-19 fatalities.
Today is the last day in the government's stabilisation period in the fight against the city's recent novel coronavirus outbreak, the worst in its COVID-19 history. All the six fatalities occurred during the latest outbreak.
Macau follows the Chinese mainland's dynamic zero-COVID approach.
Macau's population stands at about 680,000.
Caption: Health workers and police officers seal off Block 1 of Polytec Garden in the Macau peninsula's Areia Preta district this afternoon. – Photo: MPDG
