Three more people died of the novel coronavirus disease on Sunday, raising Macau’s official COVID-19 death toll to 113, the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre announced yesterday.
According to a statement by the centre, the three female victims, aged between 87 and 101, had all suffered from underlying diseases.
Two of them had not been vaccinated against the novel coronavirus, the statement said.
Macau’s first six COVID-19 fatalities were reported during Macau’s previous COVID-19 outbreak that began on June 18 last year and started to subside in late July, colloquially known as 618 outbreak in Cantonese. The Macau government was pursuing a dynamic zero-COVID approach when the city was hit by the 618 outbreak.
Macau’s seventh COVID-19 fatality was reported on December 13, a few days after the Macau government switched to its “adjusted” anti-COVID-19 approach that implicitly allows constant transmissions of the novel coronavirus in the community.
Macau logs 4 new patients on Sunday
Meanwhile, yesterday’s statement also announced that four new patients diagnosed with the novel coronavirus disease were admitted to the Health Bureau’s (SSM) isolation and treatment facilities on Sunday.
According to the Health Bureau’s COVID-19 website, which was updated yesterday, Macau’s official cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases stood at 3,434, of which 3,222 had meanwhile been cured.
Meanwhile, the Health Bureau cancelled its telephone consultation services on its self-assessment e-platform for COVID-19 carriers on Friday last week.
Despite the fact that those travelling between Macau and the mainland have no longer been required to display a negative COVID-19 nucleic acid test (NAT) result since January 8, the Macau government has said that a number of NAT sampling stations still need to stay open in the city because residents intending to travel to certain foreign countries are still required to display a negative NAT result.
