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A long and expensive journey home

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A stressful ordeal to return to Malaysia with China’s Covid-zero policy.

AFTER nearly two-and-a-half-years, I finally set foot in tanah airku.

After all Beijing Guangzhou flights on May 2 were cancelled, I bought a plane ticket to Shenzhen, about 130km away from Guangzhou.As more residential areas in the Chinese capital were put under lockdown amid the Covid-19 outbreak and fearing mine would be next, I left for the airport at 2am last Monday to catch my 9am flight to Shenzhen.

I could not believe what I saw as all the check-in and ticketing counters were empty; no one manned the inquiry desk and service booths. “Don’t stay here for too long, it is a pandemic zone, your code will turn yellow or red,” an airport staffer warned.Unable to reach the airline’s customer service, I waited until the scheduled take-off time, hoping that someone would show up.

And if I stayed in Guangzhou, I may end up paying hefty hotel fees as there was no way of knowing if the flight, which flies once a week, would be resumed on May 9 . Running around with two bags weighing a total of 35kg and two backpacks, I finally landed in Singapore where I took a night bus to reach Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday morning.

 

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