Living in Covid-19 hotspot


Foreign workers coming out of a block of flats in Relau. There is widespread concern among the community’s business people about the recent emergence of Covid-19 cases within factories in Bayan Lepas affecting mostly foreign workers.— Photos: CHAN BOON KAI/The Star

COVID-19 or not, business has to go on.

Folks in Bayan Lepas, Batu Maung and Relau in Penang, who live within the infection clusters called Bayan, Intan and Damar Laut, feel the fear every day of being infected but stoically carry on with life.

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Billed as RM148.00/year

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