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The Smith Street hawker centre (above) in Chinatown is yet another ghost town, with many stalls having been shut for weeks amid the coronavirus outbreak that originated in Wuhan city in China’s Hubei province. ST PHOTO: KHALID BABA

Quality Hotel Marlow in Balestier Road, a mid-range inn popular with tourists from China, is eerily still these days. ST PHOTO: GIN TAY

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Mar 01, 2020, 05:00 AM

A Filipino band used to belt out hits every night at a street-side bar at Quality Hotel Marlow in Balestier Road, a mid-range inn popular with tourists from China.

Its driveway was never seen without a tour coach or two and groups of Chinese holidaymakers huddling together, chatting and smoking away animatedly.

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