According to the latest estimates by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) published in Environment International, long working hours led to 7.45 lakh deaths from stroke and ischemic heart disease in 2016, a 29% increase since 2000. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 In a first global analysis of the loss […]
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) is going to unveil a system of naming viruses that would be inspired by the way tropical storms are named. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The initiative, similar to how hurricanes are labelled, seeks to remove stigma. It will also be easier for the lay public to remember rather than
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In reviewing a series of World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations on marijuana and its derivatives, the CND zeroed-in on the decision to remove cannabis from Schedule IV of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs — where it was listed alongside deadly, addictive opioids, including heroin. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points In reviewing a series of
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The World Health Organisation announced to set up a Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in India, with Prime Minister Narendra expressing confidence that just like the country has emerged as the ‘pharmacy of the world’, the WHO institution will become the centre for global wellness. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Institute of Teaching
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World Health Organization (WHO) made available interim results from the Solidarity Therapeutics Trial. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points Solidarity Trial is the world’s “largest” multinational human trials on Covid-19 therapeutics. It was initiated by WHO and its partners in March to help find an effective treatment for Covid-19. It covers four repurposed drugs or
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World Health Organization has declared Africa free of polio, a landmark in a decades-long campaign to eradicate the notorious disease around the world. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points A commission led by Prof. Rose Gana Fomban Leke, has certified that no cases had occurred on the continent for the past four years, the threshold
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Soumya Swaminathan, Chief Scientist of World Health Organisation, was conferred with the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister’s special award, in recognition of her advisory role in combating the COVID-19 pandemic in the state. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The WHO representative has been offering suggestions to the state health department to step up measures in
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The World Health Organisation has renewed its invite to countries to join its COVAX facility, an international alliance aimed at accelerating the development and manufacture of novel Coronavirus vaccines, and ensuring equitable access to all. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Point The COVAX facility, launched in April 2020, is stitching together agreements with developers and
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) in its Guidance Note on Public Health Criteria to Adjust Public Health and Social Measures in the Context of COVID-19 has advised comprehensive surveillance of suspected cases. In this, WHO advises that a country needs 140 tests per day per million population. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points In India,
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World Health Organization (WHO) selected 8 people out of the several people who step forward to participate in human challenge trials to develop new vaccines for COVID-19. Human challenge trials are trials in which participants are intentionally challenged (whether or not they have been vaccinated) with an infectious disease organism. As per the announcement, the
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