Macau visitor arrivals drop 85% in 2020

The Public Security Police in Macau have announced that they recorded 5.917 million visitor arrivals last year, an 85 per cent drop from 2019.

The police recorded 69.55 million entries and exits by locals and visitors at the city’s border checkpoints last year, a 64.2 per cent decrease from 2019.

The statement said that for last year the police recorded the highest number of entries and exits on January 18 at 638,284, the highest entries and exits a day last year.

The number of entries and exits at the city’s checkpoints had “quickly” dropped since late January last year due to the implementation of Covid-19 border entry curbs, before the number started to recover in May with the gradual resumption of travel between Macau and Zhuhai.