Macau package tour guides will be tested once a week

Tour guides leading package tour groups to Macau will be required to undergo Covid-19 nucleic acid tests once every seven days starting early next month when group tours return to the city, according to new guidelines issued. by the Health Office.

According to another new rule for local package tour operators, the contact details of the participants in their tour groups must be kept for at least 14 days.

As package tours from mainland China will return to the SAR in early November, and e-Visas will be issued again between late October and early November, the Health Bureau has issued a new set of guidelines for tour organizers. tourist packages, in order to “reduce the risk of transmission of the virus”.

The guidelines require tour guides to be tested for the virus at least once every seven days after they return to work. They will be exempt from the mandatory test three days after they stop working.

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Meanwhile, the contact details of travel agency staff, tour guides and tourists traveling on package tours must be kept for at least 14 days.

The Health Office has formulated a new set of guidelines for organizers of tour packages, in order to “reduce the risk of transmission of the virus”

Meanwhile, staff and tourists will be asked to declare their travel history for the last 10 days before arrival, and those who have been in high-risk areas or in contact with Covid patients will be prohibited from participating in group travel. -19 in the last 10 days before your arrival.

Other requirements are keeping track of itineraries, limiting the number of members of a tour group, and maintaining a social distance of one meter.

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