A senior official representing the health authority in mainland China’s Guangdong, has called on the public in the province of more than 100 million people, to spend their February Chinese New Year (CNY) break within its boundaries, as a precaution against the risk of spreading Covid-19.
Visitors from Guangdong province made up nearly 60 percent of Macau’s mainland Chinese visitors for the first eleven months of 2020, according to latest data available from Macau’s Statistics and Census Service.
During January to November, Macau had nearly 2.4 million visitor arrivals from Guangdong, representing 57.8 percent of an aggregate of 4.15 million mainland Chinese arrivals. The city recorded overall, 5.24 million visitor arrivals for the January to November period.
25 Days That Changed the World: How Covid-19 Slipped Chinaâs Grasp
The most famous doctor in China was on an urgent mission.
Celebrated as the hero who helped uncover the SARS epidemic
17 years ago, Dr. Zhong Nanshan, now 84, was under orders to rush to Wuhan, a city in central China, and investigate a strange new coronavirus. His assistant photographed the doctor on the night train, eyes closed in thought, an image that would later rocket around China and burnish Dr. Zhongâs reputation as the nationâs medic riding to the rescue.
Chinaâs official history now portrays Dr. Zhongâs trip as the cinematic turning point in an ultimately triumphant war against Covid-19, when he discovered the virus was spreading dangerously and sped to Beijing to sound the alarm. Four days later, on Jan. 23, Chinaâs leader, Xi Jinping, sealed off Wuhan.