Retailers urge calm as shopping frenzy continues
Vegetables are snapped up at a supermarket in a Kuala Lumpur shopping mall this morning. People are stocking up on food and other essentials ahead of a two-week movement-control enforcement period starting tomorrow. – The Malaysian Insight pic by Afif Abd Halim, March 17, 2020.
THE rush to stock up on essentials continues today, following Putrajaya’s announcement of a two-week movement-control order to curb the spread of Covid-19. Although supermarkets and food-supply shops are to remain open during the order enforcement period, Malaysians thronged these places as soon as they opened this morning.
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