MYMedic@Wilayah Vaccination Trucks parked in front of Sogo Complex to inoculate workers of businesses in Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman and Masjid India. LOW LAY PHON/The Star
BUSINESSES in the shopping enclaves of Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman (TAR) and Masjid India hope to see a resurgence of interest in shopping now that their workforce is being vaccinated.
About 1,000 people from various businesses received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine through the MYMedic@Wilayah Vaccination Truck initiative by Federal Territories Ministry.
The vaccination programme was carried out in front of Sogo Complex in Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Kuala Lumpur, yesterday.
KUALA LUMPUR, June 25 Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman, popularly known as Jalan TAR, is one of the busiest streets in the city. Or it used to be, until the first lockdown in March 2020 saw it empty for the first time in recent memory. Over the months that followed, a kind of normalcy returned with.
Once described as a gold mine, businesses in both Selangor Mansion and Malayan Mansion are no longer drawing the crowd.
TAILOR Vimala Devi Ramayah, 66, was spotted meticulously sewing saree blouses in her small shop on the second floor of the Malayan Mansion in Masjid India, Kuala Lumpur.
Bent over her old sewing machine, she barely noticed when the StarMetro team walked into her humble yet charming establishment called Valli Tailors.
Vimala’s 37-year-old tailor daughter, Jeyamalar Balasubramaniam, also looked up, offered a smile and continued with her sewing.
Both women were engrossed in the task at hand stitching saree blouses for an upcoming wedding which is a rarity these days.