Live! Casino reopened to members only Friday and required gamblers to wear face masks and be cased in plexiglass fortresses for table games. Resorts that include casinos are required to implement numerous health protocols to prevent a COVID-19 outbreak, including changing the physical casino layout to decrease volume, putting up barriers between seats and adding sanitation stations. MGM Resorts plans to further open other venues in the coming weeks in line with its “Seven-Point Safety Plan” to “mitigate the spread of the virus, protect customers and employees and rapidly respond to potential new cases,” the company said in a statement.Ĭasinos are indoor and high-touch environments. The number of new cases last week was down 21 percent, according to the county health department. There have been 18,080 confirmed cases in the county - 481 of them in Bowie - and 637 deaths with another 24 suspected. It entered into a limited phase two of the state reopening plan on June 15. Prince George’s County was among the most severely affected of Maryland’s counties by the coronavirus. The three smaller casinos, Ocean Downs Casino near Ocean City, Hollywood Casino in Perryville and Rocky Gap Casino near Cumberland, reopened on Friday. Each casino has developed its own plan for reopening. With Maryland’s six casinos closed since mid-March due to the COVID-19 virus, total gaming revenues are down by nearly $372.5 million compared to last year, state officials said earlier this month.
