Health

KARACHI: Pakistan head coach Misbah-ul-Haq expects his charges to put up a good show during their upcoming white-ball series against England, while saying the players have gelled because of staying in bio-secure bubbles due to the coronavirus pandemic. “This [lockdown] does help in bringing together everyone close and we’ve had fair share of bubbles since last year when we visited …

SREENAGAR: Tens of thousands of migrant workers fled Bangladesh’s capital on Sunday on the eve of a tightened lockdown that will curtail most economic activity and confine people to their homes as coronavirus infections soar. Restrictions on activities and movement have been in place since mid-April as cases and deaths jumped. Infections declined in May but started to rise again …

MOSCOW: Moscow on Sunday recorded its worst daily coronavirus death toll and Indonesia saw more than 21,000 infections in a day, also a record, as countries across the Asia-Pacific region extended or reimposed restrictions to tackle fresh waves of cases. The pandemic has now killed close to four million people across the world but vaccination drives have brought down infection …

ISLAMABAD: All indicators related to Covid-19 are showing positive signs as the capital has reported the lowest weekly positivity ratio of the current year — a tenfold reduction in cases in two months. As many as 37 patients were found infected by the virus on Sunday. According to a graph revealed by district health authorities, the positivity rate was 10pc …

ISLAMABAD: As Covid-19 situation improves in most parts of the world, including Pakistan, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) has decided to gradually normalise inbound international air travel, increasing direct flights to 40 per cent from the United Kingdom (UK), Europe, Canada, China and Malaysia. On the other hand, the country continued to record less than 1,000 cases for …

Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has removed an option for visitors to apply for Covid-19 vaccines from a dedicated mobile app, although a hotline run by Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA) last week said tourists were eligible. SEHA, which operates the emirate’s health infrastructure, had said that visitors with visas issued by Abu Dhabi and …

ALLAHABAD: Seasonal flooding of the Ganges is flushing out shallow graves and exposing some of the hundreds of bodies that were buried by the river during India’s recent Covid-19 surge. Neeraj Kumar Singh, an official in the northern city of Allahabad, said that almost 150 bodies have had to be cremated in the past three weeks. “We are not exhuming …

SYDNEY: Australia’s largest city Sydney entered a two-week lockdown on Saturday to contain a sudden Covid surge, but several European nations lifted restrictions despite the global spread of a highly contagious form of the disease. While vaccination drives have brought down infections in numerous — mostly wealthy — countries, the rise of the Delta variant which first emerged in India …

A United Arab Emirates (UAE) ban on entry from India, South Africa and Nigeria remains in place, the federal aviation authority said on Sunday, after Dubai had announced it would ease entry restrictions from those countries. Dubai, a business and tourism hub, is the most populous of the UAE’s seven emirates. Throughout the pandemic the UAE’s seven emirates have set …

KARACHI: At least three more people died of coronavirus during the past 24 hours in sindh, bringing the province’s overall death toll from the virus to 5,410. In a daily statement on the coronavirus situation, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said that 511 more cases of coronavirus have been reported during the same period in the province. The …