HONG KONG, Aug 5 (Reuters) – Macau’s government said on Friday it would resume ferry services with the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen on Aug.
8, as authorities try to unwind stringent COVID-19 restrictions in the world’s biggest gambling hub.
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Gambling centres around the world like Las Vegas, a sixth of Macau’s size in revenue, are cranking up business as years of COVID curbs fade.
But Sands China, Wynn Macau , MGM China, Galaxy Entertainment, SJM Holdings and Melco Resorts face zero revenue for the near future in locked-down, Chinese-ruled Macau – and their operators’ contracts expire at the end of this year.
HONG KONG, July 8 (Reuters) – Macau authorities have added two hotels in popular casino resorts to be used as COVID-19 medical facilities from Friday as they try to ramp up capacity to handle a surge of infections in the world’s biggest gambling hub.
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However the densely-populated hub only has one public hospital, which was stretched even before the COVID-19 outbreak.
Officials have put up a makeshift hospital next to the city’s Las Vegas-style Cotai strip to help cope with the rise in cases.
According to media reports, She is the chairman of Yatai International Holdings Group, which has made gaming investments in Cambodia, the Philippines and, most recently, developed the $15 billion casino, entertainment and tourism complex in Myanmar’s Kayin State called Shwe Kokko.
Macau has recorded around 1,700 coronavirus infections since mid-June.
More than 20,000 people are in mandatory quarantine as the government adheres to China’s zero-COVID policy, which aims to stamp out all outbreaks, running counter to a global trend of trying to coexist with the virus.
“We’ve been focusing on improving our policies now over the last three or four years, once we realised there were some gaps in what we’re doing that would apply in both areas, and committed to fixing those and addressing those which we’ve done over the last four years,” he said.
HONG KONG, July 7 (Reuters) – Macau shut down a popular shopping mall adjacent to MGM China’s casino resort on the city’s main peninsula after several COVID-19 infections were found, as authorities raced to the biggest outbreak yet in the world’s biggest gambling hub.
