Rushing to beat the deadline


Homesick: Pedestrians hauling their suitcases along the Causeway to return to Malaysia.

JOHOR BARU: Some Malaysians working in Singapore are returning home after the island republic stopped providing temporary housing support at the end of last month.

Many of them were seen hauling their suitcases along the Causeway to return to the country to beat the Malaysian deadline yesterday for compulsory isolation for returnees at one of the 400-plus designated quarantine centres.

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