Macau to Reopen Leisure Venues After Two-Week Covid Closure

Macau will reopen some entertainment and leisure venues such as gyms, cinemas and bars from Aug. 18, saying that no more cases were reported after a local family became infected with the Covid-19 virus earlier this month.

The locations were closed from Aug. 5 to stamp out the flareup, the city’s first cluster of local cases in more than a year. The city has not recorded any new cases for 13 straight days since the four family members tested positive for the more transmissible delta strain. The Macau government has stepped up testing of all residents and is requiring people to have a negative result to leave the city, in response to the spread of the strain.