Guangdong govt advises public “staying home” for CNY
Visitors from Guangdong made up nearly 60% of mainland Chinese visitors for the first eleven months of 2020 in Macau.
A senior official representing the health authority in Guangdong, has called on the public in the province of more than 100 million people, to spend their February Chinese New Year break within its boundaries.
During January to November 2020, Macau had nearly 2.4 million visitor arrivals from Guangdong, representing 57.8% of an aggregate of 4.15 million mainland Chinese arrivals.
Huang Fei, deputy director of Guangdong Health Commission, mentioned the ‘stay home’ advice for Chinese New Year on the local Covid-19 situation. Guangdong nonetheless remained a “low risk” place in terms of Covid-19, Mr Huang noted.
Macau currently has a quarantine-free travel arrangement with the mainland, provided travellers in either direction have not been in a foreign country within a certain number of days beforehand.
Guangdong health official Mr Huang noted: “As the condition for Covid-19 prevention and control work now is challenged, we would encourage companies to – in accordance to their production status and the will of their employees – flexibly arrange the holiday period for their staff and direct them to stay within Guangdong during the CNY break.”
Huang added: “We would suggest the public should not to leave Guangdong unless it is necessary to do so.”
