People from China's Hongkong, alongside China's Taiwan and overseas travellers, can choose to isolate at their homes or hotels in Macau for five days instead of at centralised isolation facilities starting from Saturday as the casino hub further eases its Covid-19 curbs.
Travellers will still need to obtain a negative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) result in the 48 hours before entering Macau, but they no longer need to book a room at a medical observation hotel. Instead, they can undergo five days of quarantine in either their home or a hotel. Arrivals will be given a red health code which will change to amber on day three and become green when they complete their isolation.
Under the new rules, travellers will have to undergo one PCR test at the port of entry and on the third day after arrival. Their health code will be red at first and will only turn amber if their self-administered rapid antigen tests are negative for three days.
The code will change to green if their RAT results are negative after the fourth and fifth days. But travellers are still forbidden from heading to mainland until the 10th day of arrival.
