The Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre confirmed in the late evening of Monday (24 May) a new imported case of COVID-19, taking to 51 the tally of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Macao since the epidemic alert began in 2020.
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The distribution work of 2021 Wealth Partaking Scheme started on 12 April this year and finished on 21 May which was five weeks less than the previous year. In the course of implementation, 484,824 beneficiaries had received the cash premium by means of bank transfer, accounting for MOP$ 4,732,560,000, while 244,599 crossed cheques had been mailed, which summed up to MOP$ 2,387,078,000. Until the present time, 126,311 cheques were honoured, representing 51.6% of the total number of cheques issused.
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A joint research team, formed by researchers of the University of Macau (UM), Wuhan University (WHU), Beijing Normal University (BNU), the University of Hong Kong (HKU), and the University of Birmingham (UB), has proposed a groundbreaking image encryption scheme that uses a single metasurface as a reusable generator of different keys to encode various secret images in a computational way. The study has been published online in Science Advances, a sub-publication of the prestigious international journal Science.
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Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that the 4 hospitals in Macao provided a total of 1,715 in-patient beds in 2020, an increase of 87 year-on-year. Number of in-patients went down by 13.0% year-on-year to 54,000, while the average hospital stay rose by 0.2 day to 7.6 days. With an increase in number of in-patient beds and a decrease in total hospital stays of in-patients, the occupancy rate of in-patient beds dropped by 12.1 percentage points year-on-year to 66.2%.
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