Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio has launched the Self Declaration Covid-19 Nagaland App a in Kohima, making it compulsory for any person who has entered the state after March 6 to register in the app. The official app of the health and family welfare department will be crucial in tracking and ...

A scientific study suggested that the convalescent plasma could be a possible treatment methodology. Convalescent plasma refers to the plasma extracted from those who are recovering from coronavirus (COVID-19). The study was conducted at the infectious disease department, Shenzhen Third People’s ...

The International Monetary Fund clear that the global economy has now entered a recession that could be as bad or worse than the 2009 downturn. IMF reported the 189-nation lending agency was forecasting a recovery in 2021, saying it could be a "sizable rebound." But this would only occur if ...

India is all set to join the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Solidarity Trial which aims at rapid global search for drugs to treat COVID-19. India has stayed away from the multi-country trial till now due to its small sample size. It will express its interest to participate in the trial for the ...

The Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has announced Rs 1.70 lakh crore relief package under the newly framed Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana for the poor to help them fight the battle against CoronaVirus (COVID-19). Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Details about the COVID-19 ...

Government has developed a platform which will host webinars by All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) doctors for healthcare workers across the country. The webinars are for the frontline health workers (nurses, paramedics, ASHA- Accredited Social Health Activist workers, anganwadi ...

Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has invited manufacturers to supply 5 lakh antibody kits for diagnosis of COVID-19 infection. This antibody test for COVID-19 will act as a screening process that will give quick results in a few hours. This antibody test will help in screening suspected ...

The Virtual G20 Leaders’ Summit has been convened to discuss the challenges posed by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and to forge a global coordinated response. The video-conference of leaders of the world’s top twenty economies was hosted by Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. ...

Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane has launched initiative ''Operation Namaste'' to insulate the 1.3 million strong force from coronavirus infection and extend all possible assistance to the government in containing the pandemic. Under the operation, the Indian Army has issued several ...

Scientists from Agharkar Research Institute (ARI), Pune, an autonomous institute under the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, have developed a biofortified durum wheat variety MACS 4028, which shows high protein content. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 The wheat ...

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has given its approval for continuation of the process of recapitalization of Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) by providing minimum regulatory capital to RRBs for another year beyond 2019-20, that is, up to 2020-21 for those RRBs which are unable to maintain ...

Even as the world is grappling with the coronavirus, hantavirus of Korean origin, has claimed the life of a man in China. Hantaviruses are a family of viruses that are transmitted mainly by rodents. It can show varied disease syndrome in people. The name varies differ in various regions. In ...