WHEN the government announced the movement control order (MCO) in its bid to curb the spread of Covid-19, cities were plunged into eerie silence as businesses and shops closed in compliance.
For the refugees living in Kuala Lumpur, majority of whom were employed as daily wage workers, that meant the collapse of their livelihoods as their income sources were lost.
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