Macau’s casino industry took another kick in the nuts on Thursday as mainland China’s biggest province announced new COVID-19 quarantine restrictions.

On Thursday, authorities in Guangdong, China’s most populous province and the closest to Macau, announced a new 14-day quarantine policy for individuals who arrive at its border checkpoints from Macau, Hong Kong or Taiwan. The new rules are intended to minimize further transmission of the COVID-19 coronavirus.

Both Hong Kong and Macau imposed similar rules for their own territories earlier this week after reporting spikes in new COVID-19 cases. Guangdong’s new rules, which take effect Friday at 6am, have reportedly convinced numerous Chinese citizens currently in Macau to head home early to avoid having to spend two weeks in isolation (at their expense).

With nearly one-third of Macau’s 2019 tourist arrivals coming via Guangdong, the new quarantine rules will put further downward pressure on Macau’s already feeble capacity to generate gaming revenue. Most regional airlines have yet to return to anything resembling regular service, making Guangdong’s Gongbei border gate one of the only ways in or out of Macau.

Gambling operators in Africa are proving no more immune to the negative impact of COVID-19 than those in any other market.

Until recently, Africa appeared to have dodged the kind of turmoil that the rest of the world has endured due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. But the continent is slowly catching up to the rest of the world, as South Africa’s number of confirmed cases is nearing 1,000 and Kenya just recorded its first death.

This week, Kenya’s Betting Control and Licensing Board issued a directive ordering all betting shops and casinos to shut their doors, effective immediately, until further notice. Radio and television operators were told to halt all gambling and betting advertisements.

Ivan Kalanzi, brand ambassador for Ugandan- and Rwandan-licensed GAL Sports Betting,told the BBC that his firm’s sales were down “about 99%” since the major sports leagues began suspending play and governments began ordering non-essential retail businesses to close their doors.