The human immune system makes many antibodies in response to COVID-19 infection or vaccination, and no single variant of the new coronavirus can yet escape all of them, according to a study posted on Thursday on bioRxiv ahead of peer review. Researchers looked at how mutations in coronavirus variants affect antibodies’ ability to target a key region on the virus spike …

Some of the new coronavirus variants can cause COVID-19 in mice, researchers have found. The implications, such as whether mice could then transmit the virus to humans, will require further study, they said. The original virus strain identified in Wuhan, China, could not produce illness in mice because the spikes on its surface could not bind well to the ACE2 …

AHMEDABAD: All-rounder Ben Stokes has said England welcome the pressure of Saturday’s ‘final’ against India as they seek to become battle-hardened for this year’s Twenty20 World Cup. India levelled the five-match Twenty20 International series 2-2 when their bowlers stifled England’s run chase for 186 despite Stokes’s defiant 46 in Ahmedabad on Thursday. “In an ideal world we would have loved …

KARACHI: Peshawar Zalmi head coach Darren Sammy and mentor Hashima Amla said on Friday that they are enjoying their roles with Peshawar Zalmi and rated Pakistan Super League highly, terming it as a platform for finding new talent in Pakistan Cricket. Both Sammy and Amla have stayed back in Pakistan after the postponement of PSL 6 and recently attended the …

LAHORE: Pakistan captain Babar Azam on Friday indirectly admitted that he was not in complete agreement with chief selector Mohammad Wasim on picking national squads for all three formats for the upcoming trips to South Africa and Zimbabwe. “First of all it is good for everyone if no news is leaked to media [about the discussion on team selection]. Everything …

Facebook Inc said on Friday its services were being affected by a number of issues, after nearly a million people across the world reported problems with its photo-sharing app Instagram. “Multiple teams are working on it (the outage), and we’ll update you when we can,” Facebook’s gaming unit said in a tweet. It tweeted about an hour later that the …

HYDERABAD: The Sindh chief minister has set a target of Rs20 billion for the collection of agricultural income tax (AIT), Qazi Shahid Pervez, senior member of the Board of Revenue (BoR) for Sindh said on Friday. Chairing a training session of revenue officers at Shahbaz Hall, Mr Pervez said the province needs revenue officers to meet this target and make …

ISLAMABAD: The electricity rates for consumers of 10 distribution companies (Discos) of ex-Wapda are set to go up by 66-paisa per unit under monthly fuel cost adjustments (FCAs) and another 91-paisa per unit under quarterly tariff adjustments (QTAs). The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has called two separate public hearings on March 30 to take up two separate petitions …

Former flames Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez broke up years ago but talk of their past relationship has hardly died down. Following the release of the Sorry hit maker’s  new track Ghost, all fans were convinced that it was a tribute to his ex-girlfriend. The song’s lyrics read: “I miss your touch some nights when I’m hollow / I know you cross the …