Chinese gambling hub Macau shuts businesses for COVID testing and Economy


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Chinese gambling hub Macau shuts businesses for COVID testing Mass testing comes after dozens of locally transmitted cases were discovered in the former Portuguese colony. Chinese territory Macau, the world’s biggest gambling hub, began its second day of mass COVID-19 testing on Monday, with banks, schools, government services and other businesses forced to shut, but casinos remaining open. The testing of Macau’s roughly 600,000 residents is expected to end on Tuesday and comes after dozens of locally transmitted cases were discovered over the weekend. The Chinese-ruled former Portuguese colony adheres to China’s “zero COVID” policy which aims to eradicate all...