Macau´s economy will recover in 2021 from a 63% fall projected for this year, with the Special Administrative Region´s "fortunes tied to a recovery in Chinese tourism", the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) says. 

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Macao’s gross domestic product (GDP) dropped 48.7 per cent year-on-year in real terms in the first quarter of the year, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced today. Gross gaming revenue fell fall of 93.2 per cent.

With travel restrictions related to Covid-19 putting trade missions on hold, PortugalFoods, the "umbrella" brand of the Portuguese agrofood sector, is organizing "virtual missions", starting with Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and South Korea.

The 2020 Lines of Government Action, the first presented under the new chief executive, Ho Iat Seng, essentially retain that central role and opens new avenues for their development, like a Renminbi-denominated stock market and e-commerce platforms.

Last week, an order of 500 Chinese ventilators from Portugal was threatened by an offer from another country, but was saved "in extremis" by BNU bank in Macau.