Macau authorities have deported about 150 people and searched dozens of hotels across the city on Monday (27/1/2020) for visitors from the virus-hit Hubei province to find hundreds more.
The Macau Authority has announced that from midnight on Monday, people from Hubei and others who have visited Hubei province in the past two weeks will only be allowed into the city if they have a medical certificate to prove they are not infected with the virus. the deadly new.
But several thousand Hubei residents are believed to have entered Macau over the previous few days, and officials said these people were expected to either leave the area or go to quarantine camps already available.
Authorities said they had gone to 86 hotels on Monday and found about 150 Hubei residents who were then escorted to the border to return home.
Instead, a family of four opted to go into quarantine for two weeks, as they claimed to already have isolated relatives in a hospital in Macau.
Police said to date no visitors from Hubei have been able to enter Macau during the day, as no one has the necessary medical certificates that would allow them to get an entry permit.
Authorities said they believe there are still around 500 people from Hubei province to be found in Macau and a search for them is ongoing.
Macau has so far confirmed there are six patients infected with Wuhan pneumonia. Meanwhile, the Hong Kong Authority has confirmed that 8 people have been infected with the deadly pneumonia virus in its territory.
