'Post-May Day' break

The number of confirmed novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) topped 3 million this afternoon, the worldometers.info reference website reported.  According to the real-time statistics service, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases stood at 3,003,392 at 4:45 p.m. (Macau time) today. The number of COVID-19 deaths amounted to 207,096, some 26.7 percent of them in the US (55,415). The US accounted for 32.8 percent (987,322) of the world's confirmed novel coronavirus disease

Three local elderly women fell for a “guess who I am” scam and lost a total of 420,000 patacas, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chan Wun Mam said at a regular press conference on Wednesday.The three female victims are aged between 60 and 80, Chan said.According to Chan, the victims received calls on their fixed-line telephones at home on February 27, last Friday and Tuesday respectively, mistakenly believing the scammers to be their family members.Chan said that the scammers said they were