The pedestrian-only crossing will be a first for Macao, with a one-time checking process for arriving and departing travellers.
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Since last Monday, all arrivals from the mainland have to show a nucleic acid test certificate proving that they have tested negative for COVID-19 – or had their sample collected – within the past seven days before being allowed to enter Macau. Macau residents or visitors who fail to show the certificate will be taken to the local government’s nucleic acid testing station at the Taipa Ferry Terminal in Pac On for testing, while non-resident workers from the mainland will be denied entry.
From Sunday anyone crossing the border between Zhuhai and Macau must present a certificate which confirms that they tested negative for COVID-19.
Macau’s Lotus Flower checkpoint to be transferred from Cotai to Hengqin.
Central Districts Community Service Consultative Council member Tou Mio Leng urged the local government to discuss with its Zhuhai counterpart the resumption of a passenger ferry service between the peninsula’s Inner Harbour and Wanzai in Zhuhai.