Individuals arriving to Macau from Hong Kong, Taiwan and overseas countries and regions are no longer required to present proof of their COVID-19 vaccination record starting from today (Thursday), health authorities have announced.
The Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre justified in a statement published yesterday night that this relaxation “does not mean COVID-19 vaccination is not important”.
“[But] the vast majority of arrivals [from these regions] have already satisfied the vaccination requirement, and it will cause inconvenience to them if they are still required to show the proof of vaccination,” the Centre continued.
But individuals arriving from Hong Kong, Taiwan and overseas still need to present a negative nucleic acid test (NAT) result, and undergo a seven-day quarantine in a designated hotel plus three days of self-health management, it added.
Arrivals from Hong Kong and Taiwan now have to present a negative NAT result taken in the past 24 hours, while a 48-hour valid NAT result is required for arrivals from overseas.
Macau has just experienced its worst community COVID-19 outbreak since the pandemic started more than two years ago. There were a total of 1,821 new cases in the city, accounting for about 0.3 per cent of the population, in the recent outbreak that started on June 18 and lasted for 44 days.
According to the latest official data, 620,567 individuals in Macau were vaccinated as of Wednesday, including 593,315 individuals that have taken two jabs or more and only one shot for 27,252 individuals.
