Kuala Lumpur, like never before, in pictures


What a sight. The usually busy thoroughfare Bukit Bintang empty on a Sunday Night during the movement control order.

No hawker stalls, shops shuttered, no tourists, no pedestrians and most of all no traffic jams. For the past seven weeks, Kuala Lumpur has been uncharacteristically deserted as people stayed indoors during the movement control order (MCO) to flatten the curve of Covid-19 infections. The Star photographer Azhar Mahfof captures the city under MCO through his camera lens.

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