PPP leader Qamar Zaman Kaira has criticised the prime minister for opposing the lockdown initially and not appreciating the measures taken by Sindh to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.

"In his very first address to the nation, he (prime minister) said that we should not go for a lockdown," Kaira recalled.

Addressing a press conference, Kaira said that 58 per cent of the cases recorded so far are of local transmission.