Current Affairs Quiz - July, 2021

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As per a paediatric sero-survey conducted in Mumbai, 51.18% of those below the age of 18 in Mumbai have antibodies against Covid-19.
The survey was conducted by a hospital run by BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) between April 1 to June 15. This was the third sero survey conducted since the beginning of the pandemic.

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China has been officially certified as ‘Malaria-free’ by the World Health Organization (WHO). It is only the second country in the Asia Pacific region to get the tag, after Sri Lanka in 2016.
China has maintained zero indigenous malaria cases for four consecutive years. In the 1940s, it had an estimated 30 million cases and 300,000 deaths per year.

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July 1st 2021 marks the 4th anniversary of the Goods and Services Tax (GST), which was implemented on the same date in 2017. This date has been designated by the Central Government as GST DAY.
This year, the Union Finance Ministry has proposed to issue certificates of appreciation to 54,000 GST payers for timely filing of returns to mark the GST Day.

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After nearly 20 years, the US military has left Bagram airfield, the epicentre of its war to oust the Taliban and track down the al-Qaida perpetrators of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The airfield was handed over to the Afghan National Security and Defense Force in its entirety.

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Maana Patel made history on July 2, 2021 as she became the first Indian female swimmer to qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics through the ‘Universality quota’. The Universality quota allows one male and one female competitor from a country to participate in the Olympics, provided no other swimmer from the same gender qualifies for the Games or receives a FINA invite based on his or her Olympic Selection time (B time). Maana Patel, 21, will join Sajan Prakash and Srihari Natarajan in India’s swimming squad for this month’s Summer Olympics.

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Nihal Sarin won the Silver Lake Open chess tournament in Serbia on June 29, 2021. The third-seeded Indian emerged on top of the field with eight points from nine rounds. The second and third places were also taken by Indians Raunak Sadhwani and Abhimanyu Puranik who scored seven points each.

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Nineteen years after Russian Grandmaster Sergey Karjakin created a sensation by becoming the youngest chess grandmaster ever at 12 years and seven months on August 12, 2002, a new prodigy, Abhimanyu Mishra of the United States, broke the record on June 30, by becoming a Grandmaster at 12 years four months and 25 days. To attain the title of Grandmaster (GM) a player has to complete three GM norms and an Elo rating of at least 2500. Mishra won his third GM norm on June 30.

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The Chengdu J-20 was developed by China’s Chengdu Aerospace Corporation for the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF). The J-20 is designed as an air superiority fighter with precision strike capability.

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has issued a moratorium on federal executions while it reviews policies and procedures. U.S. President Joe Biden had said on his campaign website that he would legislate the end of capital punishment at the federal level and incentivize states to follow suit.

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Panacea Biotec has received a licence from the Drugs Controller General for manufacturing the Sputnik V vaccine in India. On July 4, 2021, the first batch of the vaccine, manufactured at Baddi in Himachal Pradesh, passed quality control checks.