Khyber Pakhtunkhawa Minister for Health Taimur Jhagra has said that the government is trying its best to ease the lockdown while containing the risk of virus spread.

"The two things we are going to try out are that the closing time for shops and markets will be 4pm and they will remain shut on Friday, Saturday, Sunday. These measures might be better than a seven day leaky lockdown," Jhagra said while adding that the government is trying its best to increase the health department's capacity.

"The six to eight weeks we got, we tried to use them in increasing the province's health system's capacity. However, we also have needed to focus on polio, dengue and other primary health concerns," he said.