ISLAMABAD: Coronavirus has claimed 104 more lives across Pakistan over the past 24 hours, taking the overall death toll to 19,856. According to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), 3,256 new COVID-19 infections were reported during the said period. Overall 886,184 cases of coronavirus have been reported in the country so far. With 4,440 recovering their health from the COVID-19, the overall …

PARIS: Over 1.5 billion doses of anti-COVID vaccine have been injected into people’s arms around the world, within just six months since the vaccination drive started, showed an AFP count. By Tuesday at 1530 GMT at least 1,500,017,337 doses had been injected in 210 countries or territories, according to the tally based on official sources. Nearly three-fifths of the total …

Bitcoin tumbled below the $40,000 mark on Wednesday to a 3-1/2 month low and dragged down the prices of other digital coins after China imposed fresh curbs on transactions involving cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin , the biggest and best-known cryptocurrency, had already been under pressure from a series of tweets from Tesla boss Elon Musk, but the news from China sent it …

The COVID-19 variant first identified in India may be spreading less quickly than first feared, a leading British epidemiologist said on Wednesday, but vaccines might be less effective at limiting its spread. Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday warned that the emergence of the B.1.617.2 variant might derail his plans to lift England’s lockdown fully on June 21 but said …

LONDON: Gloucestershire wicketkeeper-batsman James Bracey and Sussex seamer Ollie Robinson could be in line for their first England caps after being called up to the Test squad for the first time on Tuesday. The duo are in the 15-man squad announced by head coach Chris Silverwood for the two Test series with New Zealand. There is also a Test recall …

ISLAMABAD: Batting great Inzamamul Haq was disappointed by the Pakistan Cricket Board’s decision to make way for more Twenty20s during the West Indies tour, by reducing Tests, saying it would hurt cricket in the long run. Earlier, the PCB had said in a statement that, in consultation with the Cricket West Indies and keeping an eye on this year’s ICC …

CAPE TOWN: A.B. de Villiers has decided against a return to international cricket and will not play for South Africa at the Twenty20 World Cup that is scheduled to take place in India later this year, officials confirmed on Tuesday. De Villiers had been in talks with head coach Mark Boucher about a return to the limited overs side following …

TOKYO: A top medical organisation has thrown its weight behind calls to cancel the Tokyo Olympics saying hospitals are already overwhelmed as the country battles a spike in coronavirus infections less than three months from the start of the Games. The Tokyo Medical Practitioners Association representing about 6,000 primary care doctors said hospitals in the Games host city “have their …

LAHORE: The wait continues for an official announcement from the Pakistan Cricket Board that Abu Dhabi will stage the remaining 20 matches of the Pakistan Super League season which was disrupted due to a Covid-19 outbreak. The PCB had planned on the resumption of the PSL from June 1 but although there have been reports that the United Arab Emirates …