Coronavirus: Malaysia's stay-home order leave many too close for comfort with cramped housing

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KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's Movement Control Order (MCO) has for most households meant the annoyance of being cooped up at home, counting the days - at least 28 for now - as the authorities try to limit human contact to curb transmission of the coronavirus.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's Movement Control Order has for most households meant the annoyance of being cooped up at home, counting the days - at least 28 for now - as the authorities try to limit human contact to curb transmission of the coronavirus.

"I'm renting a small room on top of a shoplot in Petaling Jaya with two other friends for RM500 , the size of the room is roughly 10 sq m," said Bangladeshi wiring technician Shohel Mollah, 29, referring to the satellite city next to Kuala Lumpur."Two other rooms are also being rented by six others, so there are nine of us."

Even smaller families like Kuala Lumpur City Hall officer Norden Sohed's - five people living in a home of about 60 sq m- find life"scary" in these low-cost flats Mr Shohel and other workers like him are paid for a day's work and the MCO - the authorities have ordered the shutdown of all non-essential activities - means they have zero income.

 

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