Snapshots of daily life as city tackles COVID-19

 Serious violent crimes stay at ‘low or zero’ level     Macau’s police forces recorded 3,548 crimes in the first quarter of this year, a year-on-year increase of 18 percent, as well as 5.5 percent rise in comparison with the same quarter in the pre-pandemic year of 2019.Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak announced the first-quarter crime statistics at a press conference at the São Francisco Barracks yesterday morning. Wong pointed out that 656 fraud cases were

The Macau Health Bureau (SSM) said yesterday that it is planning to purchase mRNA COVID-19 vaccines specifically for children aged between 5 and 11.Leong Iek Hou, who heads the Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Division of the Health Bureau, and Tai Wa Hou, a clinical director of the public Conde de São Januário Hospital Centre, made the remarks when attending a current affairs phone-in programme hosted by Ou Mun Tin Toi, the Chinese-language radio channel of public broadcaster