"Coronavirus: for Malaysia's migrant workers, lack of food is a bigger worry than Covid-19", 26 April 2020

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...[A]s Malaysia enters its sixth week of a national lockdown to stem the spread of Covid-19...migrants living in these cramped, close quarters are beginning to feel the pangs of hunger as their money slowly runs out.

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[...] Shamim Miah, a Bangladeshi student who shares a flat with five others in one of the buildings, has been unable to leave to get food for days, and soon it will be the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan.

"We have no food, we are scared. Help us, please," he said.

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...Defence Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said the welfare of foreigners was the responsibility of "their respective embassies", just days after promising that the government would provide these workers with food supplies. Currently the areas under enhanced lockdowns are receiving food from several sources, including NGOs and public donations, as well as government agencies.

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"There have been countless reports from the migrant and refugee communities of people going hungry and there are no government policies in place that protect them."

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For other migrant workers such as Sulaiman, 42, housing is not the main issue...[t]heir more pressing concern, however, is that food is running out....

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"[...] We can survive these housing conditions, there is nothing wrong with the house. We can endure – right now we just need food."