The economic impact of Covid-19 is felt across the country where long queues were formed outside pawn shops on the first day of the conditional movement control order (MCO) on Monday. Read more:
Checks also showed there were a number of people at shopping centres and also at the Taman Melaka Raya and Kota Laksamana commercial hubs where the parking bays were almost full.Food operator Lim Ah Eng, 39, said he had never seen such large crowds gathering outside the pawnshops here."I don't know why this is the case but it caused some traffic congestion at the city centre in the morning," he said when met Monday .
Checks at shopping complexes here also showed that most retail outlets have started operating on the first day of the conditional MCO.Chief Minister Datuk Sulaiman Md Ali said the state will review and finetune the conditional MCO following reports that retail outlets had started operations. "Our tourism industry is anticipated to take some time to recover and the reason we agreed with the conditional MCO was also to save locals employed by factories here from losing their source of incomes," he said."Factories here were losing RM1mil per day during the MCO and this created a high risk of job losses," he said.
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