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Off limits A delivery rider stopping at a police barricade to wait for customers to collect their orders near flats in Persiaran Paya Terubong. It is one of two areas in Penang placed under enhanced movement control order after a surge in Covid-19 cases. — ZHAFARAN NASIB

PORRIDGE seller Sow Teik Guan, who operates within the enhanced movement control order (MCO) zone in Paya Terubong, Penang, has been busy running up and down between the police checkpoint and his stall.

Many customers are still ordering food from the 51-year-old but delivery riders are barred from crossing the checkpoint to pick up the orders from Sow.

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