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In order to cultivate the caring spirit and establish positive values for students, the Student Affairs Office of Macao Polytechnic Institute recently organised a series of activities of the Charitable Fellowship Programme, to visit Complexo de Serviços de Apoio ao Cidadão Sénior da Obra das Mães na Praia do Manduco (Elderly Nursing Home). The students met the elderly and interacted with them through games, spending a pleasant afternoon with the elderly in order to achieve a harmonised atmosphere between generations, express love and care towards the seniors and promote traditional virtues of filial piety. The MPI students also used the government’s epidemic prevention slogans as the basic blueprint and created an interactive game, spreading the message of respect and compliance with the epidemic measures.
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The Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre has confirmed a new case of COVID-19, one involving imported infection. It concerns an asymptomatic patient assessed as being in a condition of relapse. It takes to 50 the tally of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Macao since the epidemic alert began in 2020.
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Health quarantine requirements and measures for inbound travellers of different identities.
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Health quarantine requirements and measures for inbound travellers of different identities.
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Organized by the Secretariat for Economy and Finance of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government, and co-organized by the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of Jiangsu Provincial People’s Government and the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of Nanjing Municipal People’s Government, the “Macao Week in Jiangsu” was unveiled grandly in Nanjing today (14 May), unfolding a mega roadshow along the Pedestrian Street at Confucius Temple in Nanjing until 17 May. Through eye-catching booths, interactive experiences, stage performances, check-in games and more, the roadshow not only showcases the city’s unique, diverse offer of travel experiences and colorful dimensions of “tourism+”, but also promotes Macao as a healthy, safe and quality destination among Mainland residents. The event is part of the continuous endeavor to draw visitors for travel and spending in Macao.
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Health quarantine requirements and measures for inbound travellers of different identities.
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Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that there were 54 institutions offering vocational training courses in 2020. A total of 1,343 courses were organised, which decreased by 30.6% owing to the suspension of courses by some training institutions amid the pandemic. Total number of participants dropped by 25.3% to 61,292.
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Ziyue Yu and Lihua He, two PhD students of Macao Polytechnic Institute (MPI), recently won the Best Student Paper Award for their paper “Deep Learning for COVID-19 Prediction based on Blood Test” at the 6th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security (IoTBDS 2021). This is the only best student paper at IoTBDS 2021, and was widely commended by the conference participants.
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As of 4pm on Thursday (13 May), a total of 126,141 COVID-19 vaccine jabs had been administered in Macao, according to statistics provided by the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre.
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The Monetary Authority of Macao announced today that the preliminary estimate of Macao SAR’s foreign exchange reserves amounted to MOP206.7 billion (USD25.85 billion) at the end of April 2021. The reserves increased by 3.1% from the revised value of MOP200.5 billion (USD25.03 billion) for the previous month. Macao SAR’s foreign exchange reserves at end-April 2021 represented 11 times the currency in circulation or 86.6% of pataca M2 at end-March 2021.
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