Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali has issued directives to devise standard operating procedures (SOPs) to allow export-oriented industries and other businesses to resume functioning from April 14.

CM Sindh directed the labour, industries, and health departments, as well as the law enforcement agencies to work out SOPs based on the opinion of health experts and principles of labour and industries at the earliest so that factories allowed to open during the coronavirus pandemic.

The meeting deliberated on a suggestion of exporters and industrialists seeking conditional reopening of industrialists in order to meet export orders.

Murad Ali Shah said had it not been for the contagion, the government will not have shut industries.