Free-flowing: Traffic at a bare minimum along the Butterworth Outer Ring Road during the first day of movement control order in Penang.
GEORGE TOWN: Penang’s public transport ridership has taken a nose dive with people shunning buses and ferries due to the Covid-19 outbreak.
RapidFerry is seeing a major plunge in the number of people taking ferries, dropping from 300 passengers to 40 during peak hours.
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