(Yicai Global) Aug 11 - As the Covid-19 pandemic eases, China’s Macau Special Administrative Region will resume the issuance of tourist visas for residence permit holders of neighboring Zhuhai, Guangdong province and holders of residence permits for Macau from midnight tomorrow, including for personal travel and group tours.

After reopening travel to Zhuhai residents, the SAR will decide whether to extend this to residents of other parts of Guangdong and other provinces in China based on actual circumstances, Ouyang Yu, director of Macau’s social and cultural affairs department, said yesterday, CCTV News reported.

The region will still keep in place a dynamic adjustment mechanism for prevention and control according to the pandemic’s further development. If infections start to rebound and the risk is adjusted to a medium to high level, the SAR will reinstate 14-day intensive medical observation of all arrivals until the level returns to low.

Macau has had no local cases reported for 130 straight days and no imported ones for 45.

Editor: Ben Armour