ISLAMABAD: As many as 433,173 children were deprived of anti-polio drops during a week-long drive against the crippling disease in the country, ARY News reported, quoting sources within the NIH. A week-long anti-polio drive was held between 23 to 29 March in which 433,173 children have not inhaled drops for various reasons. Sources said 377,166 children were not available during …

The Omicron variant of coronavirus is less likely to cause long COVID than previous variants, according to the first peer-reviewed study of its kind from the United Kingdom. Researchers at King’s College London, using data from the ZOE COVID Symptom study app, found the odds of developing long COVID after infection were 20% to 50% lower during the Omicron wave …

Apple Inc (AAPL.O) workers in Maryland voted on Saturday to join a union, becoming the first retail employees of the tech giant to unionize in the United States. More than 100 workers in Towson near Baltimore “have overwhelmingly voted to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers,” the union said on its website. The local workers, forming the …

An isolated population of polar bears in Greenland has made a clever adaptation to the decline in the sea ice they depend upon as a platform for hunting seals, offering a ray of hope for this species in at least some locales in the warming Arctic. This population of several hundred bears, inhabiting part of Greenland’s southeast coast on the …

BROOKLINE (Massachusetts): Collin Morikawa held a share of the US Open lead after a riveting second round on Friday while defending champion Jon Rahm and tournament favourite Rory McIlroy were one stroke adrift on a star-laden leaderboard. Twice major champion Morikawa fired a four-under-par 66 that was the day’s low round and left him at five under 135 on the …

PESHAWAR: Promising Pakistan youngster Noor Zaman thrashed Malaysia’s Andrik Lim in the semi-final of the 29th Asian Junior Individual Squash Championship in Pattaya, Thailand on Saturday. Looking in complete control, the 18-year-old Noor took only 26 minutes to topple Lim 11-4, 11-2, 11-3. Noor, who has won several titles for Pakistan including US Junior and British Open Junior along with …

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board remains undecided on holding its annual general body meeting, a constitutional requirement which it hasn’t fulfilled in the last four years. The last time the meeting was held was back in July 2018, during the tenure of Najam Sethi as PCB chairman. Previous chairman Ihsan Mani didn’t call any such meeting during his three years …

PARIS: Former world number one Naomi Osaka has pulled out of Wimbledon due to a left Achilles injury, the four-time Grand Slam champion said on Saturday. Japan’s Osaka suffered the injury in Madrid, forcing her to miss the WTA 1000 tournament in Rome in the leadup to the French Open where she lost in the first round. Last week she …

NORTH SOUND: Bangladesh lost four wickets in the morning session to reach lunch at 115-6 in their second innings on day three of the opening Test against the West Indies on Saturday, still needing 47 runs to make the hosts bat again. Najmul Hossain Shanto survived around 40 minutes but Kyle Mayers set him up and then Mominul Haque later …

ISLAMABAD: At the 12th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation, Pakistan cautioned global leaders to come up with practical solutions to help developing and least developing countries facing balance-of-payments (BoP) crisis and looming food security threats. The WTO event, which concluded in Geneva, took up several important pieces of legislation. Minister for Commerce Naveed Qamar was heading Pakistan’s delegation …