Current Affairs Quiz - May, 2021

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Glyphosate is a herbicide, which used to kill weeds, especially used in cotton farms and to kill annual broadleaf weeds and grasses that compete with crops.
The Telangana Government has imposed a total ban on glyphosate, a controversial herbicide, as the chemical’s rampant use, especially in cotton, is polluting soil and causing health hazards to human beings.

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The World Health Organisation (WHO) finally granted the conditional approval to Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use.
The Sinopharm vaccine, developed by China, was already authorised by 45 countries. China has approved five of its vaccines for emergency use and it is using Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines for domestic use and export.

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Health authorities in England has elevated one subtype of the Indian variant from under investigation category to a Variant of Concern (VOC).
This step has been taken following a rise in the number of cases in the UK and evidence of community transmission. The original India variant officially known as B.1.617 was first detected in October, and the variant B.1.617.2 is found to have more transmission capacity.

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The Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has approved the emergency use of drug 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG), in moderate to severe Covid-19 patients.
The drug was developed by the Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), a lab of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), in collaboration with Dr Reddy’s Laboratories, Hyderabad.

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Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR) have created an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm to detect Covid-19 from chest X-rays.
The diagnostic tool named Atman AI is used for Chest X-ray screening and has shown an accuracy rate of 96.73 per cent. It can be used to rapidly diagnose and effectively treat COVID-19 patients.

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German Tennis player Alexander Zverev defeated Italian Matteo Berrettini to claim his fourth Masters 1000 crown and second Madrid Open title.
The player has been in the top 10 since July 2017 and he was also the US Open runner-up last year. Aryna Sabalenka, Belarusian tennis player has won her 10th career title at the Mutua Madrid Open. She defeated the World No.1 Ashleigh Barty.

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India’s only aircraft carrier is INS Vikramaditya, a modified Kiev-class 44,500-tonne aircraft carrier and the flagship of the Indian Navy.
The aircraft recently reported a minor fire at its home port, Karwar in Karnataka. India bought the aircraft carrier from Russia and it joined the naval fleet seven years ago. The Indian Navy operates MiG-29K maritime fighters from the deck of this aircraft carrier.

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Mucormycosis which is colloquially called as “black fungus” is a serious fungal infection in human beings. The infection has been reported in patents affected with COVID 19 disease, in some states of India.
This disease often manifests in the skin and also affects the lungs and the brain

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The International Nurses Day is observed on May 12 every year. On the same day in 1820, the famous social reformer and nurse Florence Nightingale was born.
She was an English statistician and a social reformer who founded the key pillars of modern nursing. The ICN (International Council of Nurses) observes the International Nurses Day. ICN is a federation of more than 130 national nurses’ associations.

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The condition in which humans do not realize that their oxygen level is going low and continue to perform their regular routine which leads to sudden drop in the oxygen levels is termed as “Happy Hypoxia”.
This condition mostly occurs to youngsters and would make the patients unstable. It ultimately makes COVID progressive and may even be fatal to life.