The Macao SAR Government has announced a third round of mass testing for all people in Macau, to be conducted over 48 hours from 9pm tonight, after the SAR confirmed its 72nd case of COVID-19 on Monday.
The new case is a 46-year-old man who lives in Zhuhai and works in Macau. He most recently arrived in Macau on 26 September and has remained in the SAR since, staying in three separate hotels – Sands Macao (26 and 27 September), Grand Emperor (28 and 29 September and from 1 October) and Victoria Hotel Macau (30 September). He received virus tests on 28 and 30 September and returned negative results.
However, this morning the government announced that a pooled test of samples from 10 people had returned a positive result for COVID-19. The 10 were each rushed to hospital and tested individually, with the man returning a positive result and being announced as Macau’s 72nd case.
