(Macau Comprehensive News) The Macau Special Administrative Region Government ordered that all residents of the Philippine passports will conduct nucleic acid testing every day from Friday (July 22), because the ratio of crown diseases in the Philippines residents is higher.
Comprehensive Bloomberg reported the release of the website of the Australian government, Liang Yi, Director of the Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Division of the Macau Health Bureau, said at a press conference on Thursday that the latest diagnosis data shows that there are currently 171 cases of diagnosis in the Philippines.Local positive cases account for 9.5 %.
"Our epidemic studies have found that they often have more gatherings, such as meeting between friends," Liang also said."It is likely that they have more interaction inside their ethnic group, so we need to find out whether there is a hidden source of infection through frequent testing."
The Macau government is not the first time a high -risk group is divided by race
The latest population statistics show that the total population of Macau is 680,000. According to the Philippine official news agency, as of July 2021, more than 28,000 Philippine workers have been hired locally, which accounts for about 4.1 % of the Macau population.Work in tourism, gaming, hotel industry, or become family helpers.
This is not the first time that the Macau government has divided high -risk groups with race.In October last year, the Australian government also required Nepal and Vietnamese workers to conduct a test every day and test a total of four tests.
In the early days of the outbreak of the epidemic, the Australian government also required residents who held Myanmar passports for testing.Hong Kong also required all foreign families to test nucleic acid testing in May last year.
Paulo Carochas posted on Facebook on Thursday that the Australian government listed the Philippines as a key monitoring group and required to conduct a daily detection decision "absolutely illegal, unreasonable and extremely racial discrimination."He also said that if the local Philippine Consulate hopes to take legal operations, he can provide legal services for the consulate for free.
But the Philippine Consulate General in Macau calls on the compatriots in the Facebook post to avoid politicization of the entire incident and treat this measure from the perspective of health issues.Understand measures.The Philippine Foreign Affairs Assistant Secretary of State Eduardo Menez said he would negotiate with relevant departments to seek response from Macau officials.
Five positive cases have been added from Macau on Thursday, all found in isolation control.As the epidemic slows down, Macau will allow some business activities including casinos to restart on Saturday (July 23).
