Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Minister Taimur Salim Khan Jhagra has said that the province conducted more than 3,000 tests for June 6 and that the testing capacity has doubled over the last six days.

He termed it "a first for a small province".

Last month, the health department authorised three more laboratories, two private sector and one public sector, to conduct Covid-19 tests as part of the plan to scale up the province’s testing capacity to 4,000 by middle of June.