Omicron spreads global gloom over New Year’s celebrations

After struggling with the coronavirus for far too long, the world understands all too well Belgium’s word of the year, “knaldrang!” — the urge to party,

Covid-19 | QR itinerary tracking to remain optional

Public facilities will continue to allow entry of those who do not track their itinerary with the health code app, confirmed officials during the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination

China puts 13 million people in lockdown ahead of Olympics

China is redoubling efforts to control new virus outbreaks with a lockdown of the 13 million residents of the northern city of Xi'an following a spike in coronavirus cases. The measure

Covid-19 | Post-vaccination complications in 14-year-old patient

An adverse case was reported after complications arose from a 14-year-old’s vaccination on Saturday, December 18, according to the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre.

Pandemic: Fauci says omicron variant is ‘just raging around the world’

The COVID-19 omicron variant is "just raging around the world," the White House's top medical adviser said today (Sunday), and President Joe Biden is planning to give "a stark warning

Breaking News | Pfizer confirms Covid pill’s results, potency versus omicron

Pfizer said this evening (Tuesday) that its experimental pill to treat COVID-19 appears effective against the omicron variant. The company also said full results of its 2,250-person study confirmed the pill's

Interview | Visa CEO says Covid caused permanent shift to digital payments

Al Kelly believes there has been a permanent shift in how consumers worldwide pay for goods and services. His 91-year-old parents are a prime example. The CEO of payments processing giant

Covid-19 | Gov’t pleased with Health Code app usage

In the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Center press briefing yesterday afternoon, Dr Leong Iek Hou said authorities are happy with the results recorded one week after the new system

Covid-19 | More health code upload failures for NAT results

Additional failures in uploading users’ nucleic acid tests (NAT) results to their health codes have been detected, the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Center admitted yesterday in response to a

Covid-19 | Gov’t authorizes Sinopharm vaccine for children over three years old

Macau has approved lowering the age limit for China’s inactivated vaccine to three years old, down from 12 years of age, starting from today.  According to the

Hong Kong authorities report three imported Covid cases: RTHK

Health authorities reported three new imported Covid-19 cases, involving fully-vaccinated people who flew in from the Philippines, Thailand and Saudi Arabia, RTHK reported last night (Thursday). According to the HK news

Border with Zhuhai normalized with quarantine requirement dropped

Fourteen-day quarantine for entrants from Macau to Zhuhai will be lifted noontime tomorrow (Tuesday) if no new Covid-19 infection is detected in Macau by then, the local government announced this

Immediate prevention status lifted at noon: Gov’t

The Civil Protection Operations Centre announced that the Immediate Prevention Status was terminated at noon today (Friday), in accordance with Chief Executive’s instructions and with Law No. 11/2020. The

Next on FDA’s agenda: Booster shots of Moderna, J&J vaccines

With many Americans who got Pfizer vaccinations already rolling up their sleeves for a booster shot, millions of others who received the Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccine wait anxiously

IMF foresees a slight drop in global growth from pandemic

The International Monetary Fund is slightly downgrading its outlook for the global recovery from the pandemic recession, reflecting the persistence of supply chain disruptions in industrialized countries and deadly disparities

Covid-19 | Gov’t enforces NAT tests for certain occupation, racial groups following new cases

Certain occupational and racial groups of individuals – identified as key groups by the Health Bureau (SSM) – have been ordered to take four nucleic acid tests (NAT) in eight

Covid-19 | Gov’t issues itineraries of cases 76 and 77

Authorities have disclosed the itineraries of the city’s two latest Covid-19 patients, including routes taken to local supermarkets and a restaurant. The Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre confirmed on Saturday

Breaking News | Two new cases of Covid confirmed; tally at 74

Authorities announced today (Monday) two new cases of Covid-19 in the city. The Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre has revealed that a male, 52, from the mainland tested positive,

STATEMENT | US origins tracing of Covid-19 by intelligence community harmful

Firstly, origins tracing by the US intelligence community of COVID-19 sets a bad precedent of politicizing virus origins tracing. Origins tracing of COVID-19 is a complex issue of science. It

Covid-19 | CE urges people to stay calm, pleads to return to normalcy in 14 days

The Chief Executive (CE), Ho Iat Seng has urged people in Macau to stay calm during this period of “immediate prevention status” reassuring that there is no reason for panic. In

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