Some markets partially reopen as lockdown relaxed on traders' demand.

HYDERABAD -- Life returned to several markets, bazaars and commercial lanes in different districts of Sindh during day time though some specified businesses have not been allowed to open under the Sindh government's revised policy to relax the crippling lockdown enforced across Sindh to stem Covid-19 outbreak.

The relaxation has been effected under mounting pressure from businessmen, traders and retailers as well as a huge number of industrial, agricultural and other workers who have lost their livelihood to the lockdown.

Trade activities seem to have picked up in some markets of Hyderabad following issuance of successive notifications by the Sindh government regarding a limited relexation being extended to specified businesses.

The Market Tower attracted a considerable number of customers on Sunday when shops that had remained shut over the last two weeks were reopened.

Hyderabad CommissAioner had on April 18 laid down guidelines for the outlets like bakeries, restaurants and tandoors to resume their businesses but only from 8am to 5pm as per the provincial government's directives.

They are required to restrict their business to home deliveries alone and not to offer dining at their outlets.

Mechanics have also started working at their shops in some areas.

However, cloth merchants were seen present outside their shuttered outlets in anticipation of being allowed to reopen them.

Hyderabad Deputy ComAmiAssioner Fuad Ghaffar SooAmro on Sunday told businessmen, traders and shopkeepers to provide details of their respective businesses so that a policy could be evolved to allow them to resume their activities. Presiding over a meeting of revenue and other officials at Shahbaz Hall, he hinted that some markets could be allowed to reopen one day or two days a week, making it clear that all commercial areas could not be allowed to reopen simultaneously because the outbreak...