The Sheraton Grand Macao and Regency Art Hotel will no longer be used as quarantine hotels for returning travelers from next week, according to details released by the government.
At a press conference on Thursday afternoon, Macau’s Health Bureau revealed the Sheraton Grand, which had set aside around 2,000 rooms for use by medical authorities in late September, would resume normal operations from next Monday 13 December with Regency Art Hotel to follow suit from Thursday 16 December.
It comes as Macau reached 61 consecutive days without any new confirmed local cases of COVID-19, with the total number of cases since the start of the pandemic at 77.
Figures from the Macao Government Tourism Office show that 984 people are currently being quarantined in hotels, of which 262 are in designated hotels, 652 in optional hotels and 70 in a special quarantine hotel. Of these, 459 are Macau residents, 44 are non-resident workers and 481 are tourists.
The Macao SAR Government established a special isolation hotel at Treasure Hotel on 1 December for people arriving from high-risk countries. It said Thursday that 427 people had been required to undergo medical observation in the past seven days for having been to mid- and high-risk areas, including 201 local residents and 226 non-local residents.
