The Economy Minister, Ali Al Issawi, wrote a letter to the ministers of interior and health, -who head the anti- coronavirus supreme committee- , through which he stressed that the Ministry of Economy and Industry called on the government to exempt factories and production units from the lockdown enforced on the background of the Coronavirus pandamic, and to allow them to carry out their operations in accordance with their functioning system.

Al-Issawi emphasized that locking down factories and production units will negatively affect the stocks of local-made goods and will drive the prices up in the local market as the month of Ramadan approaches.