ISLAMABAD: The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) notified on Thursday a Rs3,564 cut in the price of Remdesivir, a drug found to be effective in treating patients hospitalised with coronavirus. According to the notification, the new price of 100mg vial of the antiviral is fixed at Rs5,680. The drug regulator has asked firms importing Remesivir to mention the drug …

LONDON: Britain’s medicine regulator said anyone with a history of anaphylaxis to a medicine or food should not get the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, giving fuller guidance on an earlier allergy warning about the shot. Starting with the elderly and frontline workers, Britain began mass vaccinating its population on Tuesday, part of a global drive that poses one of the biggest …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has recorded 56 deaths and 3,138 new cases due to the COVID-19 in the last 24 hours. In the past 24 hours, 56 more people succumbed to the disease, taking the death toll to 8,603. 2,030 patients have recovered from the virus during the last 24 hours and 2,575 patients are in critical condition including 77 more declared …

Britain’s medicines regulator has advised people with a history of significant allergies not to get the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine after two people reported adverse reactions on the first day of its rollout in the UK. Here are some questions and answers about the cases and what they might mean. WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED? UK officials said there have been two reports …

WASHINGTON: Scientists may have solved one of paleontology’s enduring mysteries – the evolutionary origins of the flying reptiles called pterosaurs that ruled the skies at the same time that dinosaurs dominated the land. Researchers said on Wednesday a poorly understood Triassic Period reptile group called lagerpetids, known from a few partial skeletons from the United States, Argentina, Brazil and Madagascar, …

LONDON: England star cricketer Ben Stokes’ father Ged Stokes, a New Zealand rugby league international, has died after a battle with brain cancer, it was announced late on Tuesday. Stokes, who played rugby league in England in the 1980s and returned as a coach, was diagnosed with the disease in January. The Rugby Football League said on Twitter: “We are …

ISLAMABAD: Seasoned Nasir Iqbal beat second seed Asim Khan to storm into the semi-final of Pakistan International Squash Tournament here at Mushaf Squash Complex on Wednesday. Nasir, who is an experienced player who was ranked among the top 50 players of the world at one time, has no seeding for this championship as he could not play many tournaments because …

LONDON: England’s tour of Sri Lanka will go ahead in January and will feature two Tests behind closed doors in Galle, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said on Wednesday. The ECB and Sri Lanka Cricket have agreed on bio-security and travel plans for the rearranged tour following the postponement of the series in March due to the Covid-19 …

KARACHI: Northern’s in-form skipper Nauman Ali became the first bowler this season to cross the 50-wicket landmark in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy here on Wednesday, while Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Kamran Ghulam slammed his second century in as many matches. The 34-year-old Nauman — who was also the only player last season to cross the milestone with a haul of 54 wickets from …

ISLAMABAD: The legal mobile phone imports increased by more than 90 per cent since the implementation of Device Identification Registration and Blocking System (Dirbs) in 2018. The Pakistan Telecom­munication Authority (PTA) announced that the import of mobile devices via legal channels increased to 28.02 million sets in 2019 from 17.2m in 2018, while thus far in the ongoing calendar year …