Briefs | Partial Taipa road closure tomorrow

A stretch of Governador Albano de Oliveira Road in Taipa will be closed to traffic tomorrow.  According to information from the Macau Transportation Infrastructure Office (GIT), the road closure will affect the stretch of road between Rua de Aveiro and Rotunda do Estádio (going both ways) and will be in force between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Drivers that wish to access Estrada Governador Albano de Oliveira to the Jockey Club must access Rua de Aveiro (via a temporary lane). The exiting of the road from the opposite direction (from Ocean Gardens) will be through Rua de Fat San, also via a temporary traffic lane. These traffic changes are due to works related to the construction of the Macau LRT.

Leong, Chan meet junkets to discuss regulation

The director of the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ), Paulo Martins Chan, held a meeting on Friday with the Macau Gaming and Entertainment Promoters Association to discuss gaming regulation and improvements to gaming law, according to Asia Gaming Brief. Lionel Leong, the Secretary for Economy and Finance, joined Paulo Chan and representatives from the Macau junket association, to discuss improvements to gaming law. Chan said that his priority was to improve the laws and regulation related to gaming, as well as to optimize the deployment of resources within DICJ. He also emphasized the important role that junkets played in Macau.

Dengue fever case detected at the Gongbei checkpoint

A 32 year-old man, a resident of Mainland China, was found suffering from dengue fever upon entry to Zhuhai through the Gongbei border on January 4, the Macau Health Bureau revealed. The case, initially detected by the temperature monitor installed in the checkpoint, was further investigated by quarantine officials. A blood test concluded that the man was infected with “dengue” type I. The dengue patient was returning to mainland China through Macau after a trip to Malaysia where he had been for about a month. Due to the timing of the manifestation of the symptoms and also the fact that the dengue-carrying mosquito (Aedes albopictus) is not active in the region at this time of the year, the health service considers that there is a very low possibility of the disease spreading.