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A large crowd at the passenger pick up point of the Woodlands Checkpoint at 1:15am on March 18, 2020.
ST PHOTO: CHONG JUN LIANG
Cara Wong, Toh Ting Wei
Companies yesterday scrambled to find accommodation in Singapore for affected workers ahead of the Malaysian travel ban that takes effect today.
Many workers who typically commute to work daily from Johor will now stay with colleagues or in dormitories and hotels for the duration of the two-week ban. But employers in the hardest-hit sectors such as security and transport said they were not able to house all their workers by the deadline.
