Macao to shutter casinos for a week in COVID-19 outbreak – The San Diego Union-Tribune


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BEIJING — The Asian gambling center of Macao will close all its casinos for a week starting Monday and largely restrict people to their homes as it tries to stop a COVID-19 outbreak that has infected more than 1,400 people in the past three weeks. All businesses have been ordered to shut except for supermarkets and others providing essential services. Residents must stay home unless they need to go out, such as for food shopping or to work in a sector deemed essential. Macao, a semi-autonomous Chinese region like nearby Hong Kong, is facing its first sizeable outbreak of the...