COVID-19 epidemic affects tourism a lot: MGTO chief

Addressing yesterday’s daily press conference about Macau’s novel coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, Macau Government Tourism Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes admitted that the COVID-19 epidemic has been affecting Macau’s tourism a lot.The tourism chief also said that she “has never seen such bad performance figures” since she started to work for the tourism office.According to the Official Gazette (BO), Senna Fernandes started to work for the government’s

February 26, 2020 | BY admin

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Man denies scamming people into buying facemasks online

A 27-year-old man was arrested yesterday for an alleged online facemask sales scam in which so far 16 people have been confirmed as victims, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Chan Nam said yesterday.During a special press conference, Ho said that the suspect surnamed Lei, who claimed to be unemployed, denied it was scam.According to Ho, 12 local residents – nine women and three men aged between 23 and 41 – reported the suspected scam to the police between last Tuesday and Monday, with a

February 26, 2020 | BY admin

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Sands donates 1 million patacas to 4 groups to help fight COVID-19

Sands China said in a statement yesterday that it has donated 1 million patacas to four social service organisations to help them assist the community’s most vulnerable cope with the fallout from the COVID-19 epidemic. According to the statement, the four groups – Caritas Macau, Fuhong Society of Macau, Macau Special Olympics and the Association of Parents of People with Intellectual Disabilities of Macau – each received 250,000 patacas from Sands China in a ceremony at The Parisian Macao

February 26, 2020 | BY admin

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Illegal immigrant turns out to be pimp busted 3 years ago

A mainlander surnamed Tan who illegally entered Macau earlier this month turned out to be a suspect involved in a prostitution case three years ago, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Chan Nam said during a regular press conference on Monday.According to Ho, Macau Customs Service officers picked up Tan and another man after spotting them on the shore in Taipa after they landed by boat on February 13. Ho described the second man as the “boatman” in the case.Colloquially, skippers who smuggle

February 26, 2020 | BY admin

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Anyone arriving from S Korea must go into quarantine from today

The government’s Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre announced in a statement last night that anyone, including locals, who have been in South Korea 14 days before their intended entry into Macau will have to stay under medical surveillance for 14 days in a hotel in Macau arranged by the local authorities, starting from 12:00 p.m. today, after considering that the COVID-19 epidemic in South Korea has “suddenly” deteriorated.According to the statement, those who have

February 26, 2020 | BY admin

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Only 3 of Macau's 10 COVID-19 patients still in hospital

Macau's number of hospitalised novel coronavirus (COVID-19) patients decreased to three when one more of the initially 10 patients was discharged from hospital today.The discharge of the 67-year-old female patient from Wuhan, the epicentre of the epidemic, was announced during the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre's daily press conference about the COVID-19 situation in Macau. According to Health Bureau (SSM) officials at the press conference, the woman underwent treatment

February 25, 2020 | BY admin

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Sands donates 1 million patacas to 4 groups to help fight COVID-19

Macau gaming operator Sands China said in a statement today that it has donated 1 million patacas (US$125,000) to four social service organisations in the city to help them assist the community's most vulnerable cope with the fallout from the COVID-19 epidemic. According to the statement, the four groups - Caritas Macau, Fuhong Society of Macau, Macau Special Olympics and the Association of Parents of People with Intellectual Disabilities of Macau - each received 250,000 patacas from Sands

February 25, 2020 | BY admin

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Govt urges residents not to travel to COVID-19-high-prevalence regions

Addressing yesterday’s daily press conference about Macau’s novel coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, the Health Bureau’s (SSM) Control of Communicable Diseases and Surveillance of Diseases Department Coordinator Leong Iek Hou urged residents to avoid travelling to COVID-19-high-prevalence regions – classified by the local government – so as to reduce the risk of infection.Leong also urged residents to avoid visiting government offices for non-urgent matters for the time being. She also

February 25, 2020 | BY admin

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Police nab mechanic for dangerous driving

The Public Security Police (PSP) nabbed a car mechanic yesterday morning after confirming that he was the person who was behind the wheel of a car that was seen on video on social media driving dangerously around the streets of Ilha Verde.PSP spokesman Ho Ka Kit made the announcement during a regular press conference yesterday.According to Ho, police saw a video clip showing someone driving dangerously by drifting in Ilha Verde district on social media on Saturday.According to Wikipedia,

February 25, 2020 | BY admin

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Domestic helpers share their side of story amidst COVID-19

Virtually everyone in the city is being affected more or less by the COVID-19 prevention methods rolled out by the government since the Chinese New Year holiday.All the schools are closed, some 70 percent of the city’s casinos have just reopened after a shutdown of 15 days, people queue outside pharmacies for their ration of facemasks to get into banks, post offices and government offices that are open and have their temperatures taken before they are allowed to enter a myriad of places, even

February 25, 2020 | BY admin

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‘Financially-trapped’ man storms into jail: police

A cabbie allegedly smashed the rear window of a taxi parked in Seac Pai Van on Tuesday last week, purportedly due to financial woes, then drove his private car to Coloane Prison, where he repeatedly beeped the horn, then got out of the car and stormed into the prison’s reception area where he was eventually apprehended by guards there.The case was announced by Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Ho Ka Kit during a regular press conference yesterday.The taxi driver is a 30-year-old man

February 25, 2020 | BY admin

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MGM helps SMEs fight COVID-19

Gaming operator MGM said in a statement today that to fulfil its corporate social responsibility it has launched the "MGM SME Anti-epidemic Support" programme as part of the community's ongoing fight against the novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) epidemic. The statement describes the programme as "a win-win initiative engaging a local SME cleaning company to carry out cleaning and steralising work for the city's SMEs [small- and medium-sized enterprises] to create a

February 24, 2020 | BY admin

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Sands China donates 30,000 hand sanitiser bottles to community groups

Gaming operator Sands China said in a statement today that it is donating 30,000 bottles of alcohol-based hand sanitiser gel - 9,000 litres in total - to local community organisations as part of the company's novel coronavirus (COVID-19) relief efforts. According to the statement, the 300-ml bottles, which were procured locally, were donated to three local non-governmental organisations (NGOs) at a ceremony at The Parisian Macao yesterday: the Women's General Association of Macau, the

February 24, 2020 | BY admin

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Govt exempts street vendors, stall owners from fees, rentals this year

The Macau government published today an executive order exempting street vendors, secondhand dealers and other traders from paying licence fees this year. The government also exempted Municipal Market stall lessees from paying rentals this year. The fee and rental exemptions were published in the Official Gazette (BO) today. Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng's executive order on the exemptions is backdated to January 1. Moreover, the executive order delayed the deadline for renewing

February 24, 2020 | BY admin

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