Chattogram Export Processing Zone has around 200,000 workers in 158 plants while the number of plants at Karnaphuli EPZ is 41 with around 76,000 workers. Chattogram EPZ General Manager Khaurshid Alam said the EPZ allowed 75 factories to reopen and they were following the health safety guidelines. At Karnaphuli EPZ, General Manager Moshiuddin Bin Mezbah said 30 factories resumed production on a limited scale. Mushfiqur Rahman, assistant general manager at the Korean EPZ, said all their 22 factories resumed operations. Around 40 percent of the 25,000 workers returned, he said.

Source: bd News24 April 26, 2020 13:52 UTC