Covid-19 Current Affairs

WHO Director-General has announced the initiation of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPR) to evaluate the world’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Panel will be co-chaired by former Prime Minister of New Zealand Helen Clark and former President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Prime Minister

World Health Organization has admitted the possibility of airborne transmission of the novel coronavirus in closed, poorly ventilated, crowded places such as during choir practice, in restaurants or in fitness classes. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The WHO has maintained that current evidence suggests that transmission of SARS-CoV-2 occurs primarily between people through direct,

The 18th meeting of the high-level Group of Ministers (GoM) on COVID-19 was held under the chairpersonship of Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare by a video-conference on 9 July, 2020. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points At the outset, the GoM was briefed on the current status of COVID-19 in

When a person carrying a pathogen tests negative as reported several times during the Covid-19 pandemic. These results have come up during nasal swab testing of patients who have seemingly recovered from the disease but have later been found to be still carrying the virus. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Now, researchers have reported

Mylab Discovery Solutions in Pune has launched the ‘Compact XL’ system for conducting a wide range of tests, including RT-PCR tests for covid-19. The system can test 32 tests at a time on one system and there are options to connect multiple systems on one network, the company said in a press conference. Daily Current

Recently, scientists have designed a “catch and kill” air filter which claims to trap the novel coronavirus and neutralise it instantly, an invention that may reduce the spread of COVID-19 in closed spaces such as schools, hospitals and health care facilities, as well as public transit environments like airplanes. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points

Researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) and Erasmus University Medical Center (Erasmus MC) shows that even the sickest COVID-19 patients produce T cells that help fight the virus. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The study offers further evidence that a COVID-19 vaccine will need to elicit T cells to work alongside antibodies.