{"id":17799,"date":"2021-05-12T16:09:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T16:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=17799"},"modified":"2021-05-12T16:42:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T16:42:02","slug":"melco-to-reopen-casinos-in-cyprus-at-30-capacity-on-may-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qa.focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/melco-to-reopen-casinos-in-cyprus-at-30-capacity-on-may-17","title":{"rendered":"Melco to reopen casinos in Cyprus at 30% capacity on May 17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Melco will reopen its casinos in Cyprus on May 17 at 30 per cent of their capacity. The capacity could be increased to 50 per cent from June 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Cyprus.- The Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cyprus has allowed\u00a0Hong-Kong based <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/melco-sees-85-drop-in-revenue-in-q3\">Melco Resorts and Entertainment Ltd<\/a>\u00a0to<strong>\u00a0reopen its venues on the island from May 17 at 30 per cent<\/strong>\u00a0capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/melco-casino-cyprus\">Melco&#8217;s casinos<\/a>\u00a0have been <strong>closed\u00a0since since December due to Covid-19 countermeasures.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the company, the <strong>casinos could be allowed to increase their capacity to 50 per cent\u00a0<\/strong>from June 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those who want to enter the casinos will need to present a certificate to prove they had a\u00a0<strong>negative Covid-19 test<\/strong>\u00a0carried out within the last 72 hours or at least\u00a0<strong>one Covid-29 vaccine dose <\/strong>at least\u00a0three weeks prior.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People who have contracted the virus in the past six months could also be allowed to enter casinos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On May 10,&nbsp;<strong>the government of Cyprus allowed the entry of visitors without having to quarantine&nbsp;<\/strong>as long as they have been vaccinated or if they show a negative Covid-19 test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melco will reopen its casinos in Cyprus on May 17 at 30 per cent of their capacity. The capacity could be increased to 50 per cent from June 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":17278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16331],"tags":[16344,23907,665],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qa.focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qa.focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qa.focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qa.focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qa.focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/qa.focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17818,"href":"https:\/\/qa.focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17799\/revisions\/17818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qa.focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qa.focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qa.focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qa.focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}