Covid-19 has shut down 33 markets and food complexes


Pulau Tikus assemblyman Chris Lee (right) observing health officers placing notices to temporarily close the market.

A TOTAL of 33 public markets, temporary hawker sites, temporary static hawkers and food complexes in Penang faced closure due to Covid-19 since the movement control order (MCO) started in March last year.

State housing, local government, town and country planning committee chairman Jagdeep Singh Deo said this figure involved 16 on the island and 17 on the mainland.

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