TY - GEN
T1 - The responses and challenges of COVID-19 in Macao
AU - HSU, Mei Hua Kerry
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 ACM.
PY - 2020/7/19
Y1 - 2020/7/19
N2 - Over 19,936,210 confirmed COVID-19 cases globally with 732,499 deaths with 217 countries/territories/areas involved for the public-health crisis of COVID-19 on 11 August 2020. Of 46 COVID-19 confirmed cases in Macao since 22 January 2020 (7 cases from Wuhan, China), 46 cases have recovered and discharged from hospital for the 45 case discharged on 19 May 2020. No.46 imported case returned to Macao and confirmed on 26 June 2020 after over 78 days without COVID-19 case in Macao and discharged on 17 July 2020. Why did Macao do to keep the low confirmed cases of COVID-19? How did the educational responses and challenges towards COVID-19 in Macao? The key reason should be the fast response and to ask all residents to stay at home with wearing mask since the outbreak announced by China on 21 Jan 2020, as well as "learning from home"policy for all Macao students since 3 Feb 2020. The purpose of this paper is to present the responses and challenges of COVID-19 in Macao.
AB - Over 19,936,210 confirmed COVID-19 cases globally with 732,499 deaths with 217 countries/territories/areas involved for the public-health crisis of COVID-19 on 11 August 2020. Of 46 COVID-19 confirmed cases in Macao since 22 January 2020 (7 cases from Wuhan, China), 46 cases have recovered and discharged from hospital for the 45 case discharged on 19 May 2020. No.46 imported case returned to Macao and confirmed on 26 June 2020 after over 78 days without COVID-19 case in Macao and discharged on 17 July 2020. Why did Macao do to keep the low confirmed cases of COVID-19? How did the educational responses and challenges towards COVID-19 in Macao? The key reason should be the fast response and to ask all residents to stay at home with wearing mask since the outbreak announced by China on 21 Jan 2020, as well as "learning from home"policy for all Macao students since 3 Feb 2020. The purpose of this paper is to present the responses and challenges of COVID-19 in Macao.
KW - COVID-19
KW - Pandemic
KW - Public health crisis
KW - Responses and challenges
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85094217358&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3416797.3416825
DO - 10.1145/3416797.3416825
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85094217358
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 226
EP - 229
BT - ICEMT 2020 - 2020 the 4th International Conference on Education and Multimedia Technology
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 4th International Conference on Education and Multimedia Technology, ICEMT 2020
Y2 - 19 July 2020 through 22 July 2020
ER -
