In Macau and the government has reportedly ordered local kasinos and most of the enclave's other commercial businesses to close for at least a week in an attempt to fight the rising prevalence of coronavirus.

According to a report from the Associated Press news servis, the lockdown began this morning some 29 months after the city of approximately 700,000 people went through an analogous 15-day stoppage owing to an earlier coronavirus outbreak. The source detiled that this preceding move was instituted after the enclave had chalked up ten confirmed cases of the potentially fatal ailment to mark the first time Macau had ever ordered its large collection of kasinos to shutter.

Macau and the nearby enclave of Hong Kong are reportedly looking to imitate bermainland China's ‘zero coronavirus' strategy of isolating every infected individu although the former racked up 59 new cases earlier today to bring its latest live tally to 1,526. The streets of the once-teeming city are now purportedly almost empty as residents have been told to stay indoors unless buying food or other necessities with steep fines facing anyone found to have violated the lockdown order.

Painful program:

Macau resident Pedro Kong reportedly told the news servis that members of the publik are even being required to registrasi for spesial passes to akses buses and other forms of publik transportation, which are being operated at reduced capacities. But the 40-year-old purportedly also declared that he does not think this measure is necessary because it has had the unintended consequence of ‘increasing inconvenience.'

Dominant driver:

The Associated Press reported that kasino gambling is the bermainstay of the economy in Macau and accounted for around half of the enclave's entire gross domestic product in 2018. However, the appearance of the coronavirus pandemi from December of 2019 purportedly led to an enduring slump in local aggregated gross gaming revenues that hit a 21-month low of just $306.47 million in Juni to take the figur for the year so far down by 46.4% sequentially to about $3.25 billion.

Earlier usaha:

This latest lockdown reportedly followed a Juni move that saw Macau's collection of six licensed kasino operators ordered to keep at least 90% of their local employees at home with the remainder working under strict publik health and social distancing protocols. The government of Chief Executive Ho Iat-Seng (pictured) is now purportedly looking to tes the city's entire population for coronavirus over the course of the next seven days with bis drivers and food delivery personnel to be screened daily.