Pak players test negative, to begin practice today
Sports
April 19, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan cricketers will begin training for their T20I series against Zimbabwe on Monday (today) afternoon, a team official said.
The team members that were in South Africa reached Harare from Johannessburg through a chartered flight.
All squad members of the Pakistan team tested negative at their arrival in Harare (Zimbabwe). The Covid-19 tests were conducted on cricketers at their arrival in South Africa where the team continuously stayed in the âBubbleâ.
âAll tests results that were conducted on the visiting team on arrival on Saturday in Harare have returned negative. The test results were released on Sunday,â an official accompanying the team when approached said.
Covid 19 coronavirus: Two new virus cases in MIQ, none in community on first day of transtasman bubble
19 Apr, 2021 01:04 AM
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The Government will widen its border exemption regime in a bid to allow hundreds of families, separated by Covid-19, to reunite in New Zealand.
The Government will widen its border exemption regime in a bid to allow hundreds of families, separated by Covid-19, to reunite in New Zealand.
NZ Herald
There are no new cases of Covid-19 in the community today, the Ministry of Health has revealed
There are two new cases in managed isolation.
Both cases arrived from India before the temporary ban on flights from India was implemented.
PM Imran Khan to address nation today, says Fawad Chaudhry
Pakistan
Prime Minister Imran Khan will do a
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan will address the nation today on the prevalent law and order situation in the country, revealed Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry.
He said the prime minister, during his speech, will take the nation into confidence over the prevalent situation in Pakistan following countrywide protests by a banned outfit and the ensuing clashes.
11 policemen held hostage by banned TLP in Lahore released Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed, earlier on Monday, announced that 11 policemen, who were taken hostage in Lahore by the proscribed Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) have been released after negotiations carried out by the Punjab government.
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to be moved to hospital in another prison
19 Apr, 2021 09:20 AM
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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Photo / AP
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The Russian state penitentiary service said today a decision has been made to transfer imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is in the third week of a hunger strike, to a hospital.
The announcement comes two days after Navalny s physician said his health was deteriorating rapidly and the 44-year-old Kremlin critic could be on the verge of death.
The state prison service, FSIN, said in a statement that Navalny would be transferred to a hospital for convicts located in another penal colony in Vladimir, a city 180km east of Moscow. According to the statement, Navalny s condition is deemed satisfactory and he has agreed to take vitamin supplements.
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