Lifeline provided: A resident (right) collecting food items from a delivery worker outside a block of flats near Sri Aman market complex in Persiaran Paya Terubong, Penang. The area is placed under lockdown for two weeks till Sunday due to a high number of positive Covid-19 cases. — ZHAFARAN NASIB/The Star
LIVING right next to Sri Aman market complex had been a boon for food stall operators who simply walked over to their businesses there daily but it is a different story now.
Uncoiled rolls of razor-sharp barbed wire now separate economy rice stall operator Salleh Ibrahim, 69, from his stall at the market complex in Paya Terubong, Penang.
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