Current Affairs Quiz - May, 2021

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UN Global Road Safety Week (UNGRSW) is a biennial global road safety campaign hosted by WHO in the month of May.
The theme for the 6th UNGRSW, which is to be held 17-23 May 2021, is Streets for Life #Love30. It calls for 30 km/h default speed limits to be imposed wherever people live, walk and play in all parts of the world.

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Dengue fever is transmitted by the bite of an Aedes mosquito, when infected with a dengue virus. Aedes aegypti, the yellow fever mosquito, can spread dengue fever, chikungunya, Zika fever, Mayaro and yellow fever viruses.
National Dengue Day is observed in India on May 16 with the recommendation of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

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The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) has signed a contract worth USA 1.78 billion with Petropars Group for the development of Farzad-B Gas Field located in Iran.
ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL) owns 40 per cent participating interest (PI) in the block, in which gas discovery was first made by a consortium led by ONGC. It has now lost development rights for the gas field in Iran to Iranian Petropars Group.

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Bihar government launched ‘HIT Covid App’ to ensure regular monitoring of home-isolated Covid-19 patients across the state.
HIT stands for Home isolation tracking. Health workers would visit the patients at home and feed data in the app after measuring their temperature and oxygen level, which will be monitored at the district level.

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Cambridge University chemists Shankar Balasubramanian and David Klenerman were declared the winners of the 2020 Millennium Technology Prize.
It is a prestigious global science and technology prize awarded by Technology Academy Finland (TAF) at two-year intervals since 2004. The two chemists co-invented the Solexa-Illumina Next Generation DNA Sequencing (NGS), which enables fast, accurate, low-cost and large-scale genome sequencing.

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Under the terms of the Open Skies Treaty, 34 members can conduct unarmed observation flights over each other’s territories to collect data.
Russia’s parliament has recently voted to withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty, which was signed in 1992 and came into force in 2002. Last year, US former President Trump administration said the U.S. would leave the accord.

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The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has cleared applications from five pharmaceutical companies to manufacture Amphotericin B.
It is an anti-fungal drug, used to treat Mucormycosis or black fungus. The central government has declared mucormycosis as a notifiable disease under the provisions of the Epidemic Diseases Act. Several states are also witnessing increasing cases affected by Black fungus.

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The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed an antibody detection-based kit, named the DIPCOVAN.
It stands for ‘DIPAS-VDx COVID 19 IgG Antibody Microwell ELISA’. The kit can be used for sero-surveillance for detecting the presence of Covid antibodies amongst the people. The kit can detect spike as well as nucleocapsid (S&N) proteins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

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The Indian Navy’s first destroyer – INS Rajput has been decommissioned from the service after guarding the nation for a term of 41 years.
This ship was built by the erstwhile USSR and was commissioned into the Navy on May 4 1980. The decommissioning event is to be held in Visakhapatnam Naval Dockyard.

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Pune based company Mylab has developed the country’s first self-use kit for testing COVID 19 infection. The rapid antigen test (RAT) kit is named CoviSelf, and has been approved by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) for commercial production.
The company has proposed to manufacture 40-60 million kits per month in the next few weeks.