Essential goods running out in Labuan as lockdown looms

Most sundry shops in the outskirts of town here are running out of stock of essential goods due to panic buying ahead of the total lockdown in some parts of Labuan beginning next Tuesday.

The island’s People’s Representative Council chairman, Mohd Dzulfaizal Abd Manan, said with the temporary closure of many supermarkets and hypermarkets (for Covid-19 sanitisation work), consumers were left with no choice but to...