Current Affairs April 2021
The Ct value in a Covid-19 test

Among various scientific terms that the Covid-19 pandemic has made part of the public vocabulary, one is the ‘Ct value’ in RT-PCR tests for determining whether a patient is positive for Covid-19. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 Short for cycle threshold, Ct is a value that emerges during ...

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Oxygen from Sterlite Copper

The Supreme Court allowed Vedanta Limited to operate its oxygen production units at the Sterlite Copper plant in Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The Sterlite Copper plant has been shut for three years following public protests and police firing that killed 13 ...

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Drug for common bowel disorder

People who take a commonly-prescribed drug for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) should not assume they are protected after a first dose of Covid-19 vaccine, say the authors of a large-scale study that found many had poor antibody responses. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The research ...

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Complexities of herd immunity

Living organisms including humans have all heard of immunity that results in a dramatic reduction of daily cases. Does “herd immunity” really protect from subsequent waves? The answer is not a simple yes or no. It depends on how widespread the virus is in a community and its transmission rate. ...

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