Health officials pondering jabs for kids once they reach six months, while urging universal vaccination and staying home over the holidays.
COVID-19 testing
Everybody is required to self-test, while Myanmar passport-holders and anyone who lives, works or has other contact with downtown virus hotspot must undertake NAT.
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The University Hospital run by the private Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) will join the government’s NAT scheme on Monday, with 500 places available per day.
From today, all Macao residents can also choose to undergo their nucleic acid tests (NAT) at the Macau Forum testing station in Zape under the government’s NAT scheme, in addition to undergoing the tests at the programme’s main testing station in the Taipa Ferry Terminal in Pac On.
All the fish vendors in the city’s wet markets have undergone a one-off nucleic acid test, involving 818 people in total, and none of them tested positive for the novel coronavirus.