New function kicks off at social services facilities on Monday, and will be installed at eateries, medical institutions and entertainment venues by Chinese New Year.
Control of Communicable Diseases and Surveillance of Diseases Department
Officials hopeful that travel within the Greater Bay Area will be relaxed shortly, but as yet make no firm undertakings.
Health Bureau aligning its procedures with mainland authorities, keeping a watchful eye on vaccine development as new variant spreads rapidly around the world.
Residents encouraged to take up new, slicker mobile app; health chief ponders how to get more senior citizens vaccinated.
App will only be used at health facilities during trial run; travel history will remain on users’ smartphones and will be not be uploaded to Health Bureau database.
Medical staff await the findings of international studies before launching roll-out; new contact tracing function on Macao Health Code ready soon.
Almost all 30- and 40-somethings have had either one or both jabs; SSM will focus on senior citizens who are still shirking their inoculations.
Health Bureau experts use viral genome sequencing to track down source of spate of recent cases.
New ruling comes into force at midnight; health officials report 500,802 swabbed so far in city-wide testing, 404,898 negative results.