The Zhuhai government announced Monday that borders between Zhuhai and Macau would reopen from midday on Tuesday 19 October, meaning travellers will no longer be required to undergo 14-days of quarantine when entering Zhuhai from Macau.
Macau has also updated a policy requiring travellers to show a negative COVID-19 virus test certificate obtained within 24 hours of leaving the city, extending the test requirement period to 48 hours instead.
Although Zhuhai has dropped most of its quarantine measures, it will still require people who fall into three categories to quarantine – those who are deemed to have come into close contact with any confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the previous seven days, those who have been in red code and yellow code zones in the previous seven days, and personnel who have worked in high-risk functions within the previous 14 days.
Zhuhai imposed mandatory quarantine measure on individuals from Macau on 26 September after the SAR Macau reported that several security guards working in quarantine hotels had tested positive to COVID-19. The policy was extended several times, including throughout all of the October Golden Week period, after a construction worker was also found to be infected. As a result, borders between Zhuhai and Macau have been effectively closed for more than three weeks.
Macau conducted two rounds of mass testing for all people in Macau during this time, and also launched a third, smaller scale testing blitz on Sunday for anyone living in red or yellow zones. All results from the three batches of tests came back negative.
With life in Macau gradually returning to normal, entertainments venues reopened from midnight at the start of Tuesday including cinemas, theaters, indoor amusement parks, video game arcades, internet cafes, billiard and bowling rooms, sauna and massage establishments, beauty salons, gyms, health clubs, karaoke establishments, bars, nightclubs, discos, dance halls and cabarets.
