Pandemic will surely not be over in near future: clinical director

Addressing yesterday’s daily press conference about Macau’s novel coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, Alvis Lo Iek Long, a clinical director of the public Conde de São Januário Hospital Centre, said that the COVID-19 pandemic will surely not be over in the near future, adding that the epidemic across the world will only come to an end after a specific medicine to treat the disease or a COVID-19 vaccine has been successfully developed.“For the time being it is still difficult to precisely

April 14, 2020 | BY admin

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WHO was watching our back in this outbreak? Not the WHO!

Commentary by José Álvares* I initially didn’t think facemasks or travel restrictions were necessary to solve this outbreak, but then, I’m not a health specialist. We thus rely on the advice of supposed experts, such as those at the World Health Organisation (WHO), indirectly and partially funded by taxes paid by people around the world. Unfortunately, with COVID-19, they weren’t there for us.China first reported to the WHO on December 31 the existence of pneumonia cases emanating

April 14, 2020 | BY admin

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2 local artists display their award-winning artwork

An event entitled “Exhibition of Works by Tam Chek Wun and Lao Chon Hong, Artists Winning the Grand Prize of the Jury Award of the Collective Exhibition of Macau Artists 2017”, hosted by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) is being held at the Exhibitions Gallery and the Nostalgic House of the Taipa Houses.While Tam’s creations are being shown at the Taipa Houses’ Exhibitions Gallery, Lao’s are on display at the Nostalgic House.According to the IC website, Tam and Lao are winners of the

April 14, 2020 | BY admin

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Wooden motor boat delivers drugs to Macau: police

A joint operation by the Judiciary Police (PJ) and Macau Customs Service detected the first drug-trafficking case involving a wooden motor boat in Macau and arrested four men and one woman on Sunday, PJ spokesman Leng Kam Lon said during a special press conference yesterday. According to Leng, a total of 2.92 grammes of cocaine, 1.6 grammes of marijuana, 0.55 grammes of methamphetamine and 0.4 grammes of heroin were seized in the operation, with an estimated street value of about 11,000

April 14, 2020 | BY admin

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Galaxy donates again to support nation’s research on COVID-19

Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG) said in a statement yesterday that the gaming company has donated an additional 75 million patacas to the mainland that would go to providing care for healthcare workers, help with public health promotion and support medical and scientific research related to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.According to the statement, the donation, which aims to support the development of long-term preventive measures against COVID-19, was made with the assistance of

April 14, 2020 | BY admin

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Ho Iat Seng to deliver policy address next Monday: report

Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng will deliver his 2020 policy address in the legislature's hemicycle next Monday, public broadcaster Radio Macau/TDM reported today. The report cited unidentified sources as saying that the policy address would focus on the local impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the government's recovery plans for the local economy which has been hit hard by the crisis, the tourism, gaming and retail sectors in particular. The report said that Ho would possibly also

April 13, 2020 | BY admin

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Part of Taipa ferry terminal to become airport's 2nd terminal

A large part of the Taipa Ferry Terminal will be converted into the Macau International Airport's Terminal 2, an informed source told The Macau Post Daily over the weekend, adding that Terminal 2 will be connected to the nearby airport complex through a fenced-off "restricted area" corridor in line with international aviation security rules. The source, who asked to remain anonymous, said the airport's second terminal project was still "in an embryonic stage" including

April 13, 2020 | BY admin

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3 COVID-19 patients discharged

Three COVID-19 patients were discharged from Macau's public hospital today, taking the number of those no longer requiring hospitalisation to 13 among Macau's total of 45 novel coronavirus  cases, the government announced. The announcement was made at the daily press conference of the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre.According to the announcement, the trio comprise a 31-year-old non-resident worker from the Philippines (Macau's 15th COVID-19 case), a 27-year-old

April 12, 2020 | BY admin

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Hong Kong tops 1,000 COVID-19 cases, but growth slows: report

Hong Kong reported yesterday just one locally-contracted COVID-19 case, although a further 10 imported cases took the city's total to 1,001, public broadcaster RTHK reported last night. According to the report, at just 11 the number of confirmed cases was the lowest in several weeks, although officials warned against complacency despite the downward trend."If you take a seven-day moving average, the trend is downward," Chuang Shuk-kwan, a spokesowman for the Centre for Health

April 12, 2020 | BY admin

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Macau's 9th round of facemask sales to start tomorrow

The Macau government announced today that its ninth round of facemask sales starts tomorrow.As in the previous eight rounds, each resident and non-resident worker is entitled to buy 10 facemasks at the fixed price of 8 patacas (US$1) at designated pharmacies, health centres and community association premises. Once again, facemasks for children aged between three and eight will also be on sale. Each child in the age group is entitled to five facemasks. The tie-on and ear-loop facemasks are

April 11, 2020 | BY admin

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Global COVID-19 deaths exceed 100,000: report

The world's novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) deaths exceed 100,000, the worldometers.info website reported early today.At 1:15 a.m. today (Macau time),the number of COVID-19 deaths stood at 100,440, when the number of confirmed novel coronavirus cases amounted to 1.66 million. A total of 369,956 patients had recovered. The number of currently infected patients stood at 1.19 million, four percent of them in serious or critical condition.According to the website, COVID-19 is affecting 210

April 11, 2020 | BY admin

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2 men injured in city centre blaze

Two male residents were injured in a fire on the fifth floor of Kam Loi Building in Avenida do Infante Dom Henrique around 6 p.m. yesterday, according to information provided by the Fire Services Bureau (CB).According to a statement by the bureau, firefighters received a call from a resident that smoke had erupted in the building. The 57-year-old Hong Kong resident, who lives in a flat on the fifth floor, extinguished the flames with water assisted by a 63-year-old local resident on the sixth

April 10, 2020 | BY admin

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Easter holiday

Macau celebrates Easter this weekend. The print edition of The Macau Post Daily will take a break during the holiday but its digital edition will continue around-the-clock to keep you updated on local news in particular, with special emphasis on the impact of the developing COVID-19 pandemic on our city. We wish all our readers, advertisers and distributors a happy Easter. Please always wear a facemask when out and about, wash your hands frequently, practise social distancing and always stay

April 10, 2020 | BY admin

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A matter of gratitude, generosity and pragmatism – Editorial

When asked by the media this week why Macau’s about 190,000 non-resident workers have been excluded from the government’s second round of COVID-19 support measures, Secretary for Economy and Finance Lei Wai Nong said it was a matter of weighing up different policy priorities.Lei, widely respected for his down-to-earth attitude, said that the interests of local workers facing unprecedented difficulties continued to be the government’s top priority. However, he was frank enough to

April 10, 2020 | BY admin

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