Business at ABC Brickworks Market and Food Centre fell drastically after news reports of active tuberculosis (TB) cases in the area emerged last week, hawkers said. Hawkers CNA spoke to on Thursday (Jan 11), the first day of screening for the disease, told CNA that regulars avoided the area as they thought the disease was deadly and infectious after the news broke, and that business dropped by up to 50 per cent.
Stall assistant John Lim, 29, who works at a bakery at ABC Brickworks, said:"I will say (business is) worse than (during) COVID. Because COVID, during lockdown, customers still come (to take away). But for this, they don't even dare to come to take away
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