LONDON: Many COVID-19 survivors are likely to be at greater risk of developing mental illness, psychiatrists said on Monday, after a large study found 20% of those infected with the coronavirus are diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder within 90 days. Anxiety, depression and insomnia were most common among recovered COVID-19 patients in the study who developed mental health problems. The …

d LAHORE: Provincial health authorities on Wednesday reported five more cases of dengue fever in Punjab in 24 hours. “Four dengue fever patients were reported in Lahore and one from Sargodha,” according to a spokesperson of the Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department Punjab. The tally of confirmed dengue fever cases in Punjab has now reached to 190 this year since …

Following the rapid increase in COVID-19 cases across the globe, a USA-based electronic firm, Dynamics has unveiled a coronavirus killing machine that sucks up germs and blasts them with high-intensity ultraviolet light. Called Nanowave, the technology is capable of eliminating 99 percent of the virus in less than two thousandths of a second. The device is available for purchase in …

The PUBG Corporation comes up with new updates time and again and this time, it has announced the arrival of patch 1.1, and this update brings with it a slew of changes, including a new Metro-themed crossover that offers a brand new game mode called Metro Royale. Players can also expect a new underground world to explore as well as Metro-themed …

MOSCOW: Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine is 92% effective at protecting people from COVID-19 according to interim trial results, the country’s sovereign wealth fund said on Wednesday, as Moscow rushes to keep pace with Western drugmakers in the race for a shot. The initial results are only the second to be published from a late-stage human trial in the global race …

LAHORE: While the newly inducted four members in the Board of Governors (BoG) of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) have been briefed about Pakistan’s upcoming tour to New Zealand, different committees were formed at the 60th meeting held on Tuesday here at the National High Performance Centre. “In relation to the Pakistan men’s cricket team, the BoG was updated on …

LONDON: Premier League chief executive Richard Masters said on Tuesday that the English top-flight was expected to stick to its three-substitutes rule after pressure from Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola to allow five changes. Liverpool manager Klopp and Manchester City boss Guardiola have been vociferous in their calls for the Premier League to allow five substitutions, with fears over rising …

LAHORE: All the franchises of the HBL Pakistan Super League (PSL) did not deposit the bank guarantee money for the next edition of the league, to be held in 2021, as the last date of Nov 10 expired on Tuesday. It is the second time that the franchises did not deposit the guarantee money as earlier they had missed the …

TOKYO: Tokyo Olympics organisers said news of a coronavirus vaccine was a “relief” on Tuesday but insisted their bio-security planning for the postponed Games remained unchanged. Olympic officials have regularly said that a coronavirus vaccine is not a precondition for staging the Games, now scheduled to open a year late in July 2021. But they have acknowledged that a successful …

RAWALPINDI: Leg-spinner Usman Qadir wreaked havoc against the hapless Zimbabwe batsmen with a four-wicket haul before Pakistan completed a 3-0 whitewash of their Twenty20 International series here at the Pindi Cricket Stadium on Tuesday. The final match of Zimbabwe’s limited-overs tour — which included a three-match One-day International won 2-1 by Pakistan — proved to be a one-sided affair as …