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Current Affairs Today – 17th April 2020

NEWS AT A GLANCE

1. World Voice Day (WVD) is a worldwide annual event that takes place on April 16 devoted to the celebration of the phenomenon of voice.
2. World Haemophilia Day is observed on 17 April.
3. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released the 49th round of quarterly OBICUS (Order books, inventories, and capacity utilization survey) of the manufacturing sector.
4. The licence of the Mapusa Urban Co-operative Bank of Goa Ltd. has been cancelled by the Reserve Bank of India.
5. The HDFC Bank has launched Safety Grid campaign which was conceptualized by Leo Burnett India to help people maintain social distancing as prescribed by the World Health Organization (WHO) while waiting at shops during Lockdown.
6. Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar launched Kisan Rath Mobile App to facilitate transportation of foodgrains and perishables during lockdown.
7. Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh Bhupesh Baghel inaugurated the online delivery website ‘Cghaat’ on 16 April.
8. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced that the Doctors will conduct the clinical trial of plasma enrichment technique to treat severely-ill coronavirus patients soon.
9. Chess Master Viswanathan Anand has been appointed as the new Ambassador for World Wide Fund (WWF) India’s Environment Education program.
10. The chairman and managing director of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), P. K. Purwar have been given the additional charge as CMD of Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL).
11. International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) President Tamas Ajan resigned within the wake of allegations of corruption and doping violations.
12. Limited-overs Vice-captain of Indian cricket team Rohit Sharma was named brand ambassador of “CricKingdom” a Dubai-based cricket coaching academy which provides a platform for online coaching after the global COVID-19 pandemic subsides.
13. The Indian Premier League (IPL) governing council of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has decided that the IPL 2020 Season will be suspended till “further notice”.
14. “Feifei” to be the mascot for Hangzhou 2022 Asian Para Games, China
15. Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) shifted its testing facility from Defence Research Development Establishment (DRDE), Gwalior to Institute of Nuclear Medicine & Allied Sciences (INMAS), New Delhi.
16. Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Trivandrum, has developed a diagnostic test kit that can confirm COVID-19 in 2 hours at a low cost.
17. Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences (CeNS) has developed a compact solid-state sensor that can detect the heavy metal ions in water.
18. Pusa Decontamination and Sanitizing Tunnel are developed by the Division of Agricultural Engineering, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (ICAR), New Delhi.
19. Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology (IASST), Assam is to develop plasmonic semiconductor nanomaterials for the removal of toxic organic compounds from water by harvesting solar light.
20. Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) is currently developing an inactivated virus vaccine for COVID-19.
21. Former American football player Willie Davis passed away.
22. Freedom fighter R V Bhuskute, who had participated in the Quit India Movement passed away.

NEWS IN DETAILS

IMPORTANT DAYS AND THEMES

World Voice Day 2020 is observed on April 16

• World Voice Day (WVD) is a worldwide annual event that takes place on April 16 devoted to the celebration of the phenomenon of voice.
• The day is celebrated to increase the public awareness of the importance of voice and alertness to voice problems.
• Voice is an important aspect of healthy and effective communication.

Theme:

• FOCUS ON YOUR VOICE.
• The theme was chosen by the Voice Committee of the American Academy of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery.

World Haemophilia Day is observed on 17 April

• World Haemophilia Day is observed on 17 April.
• The day aims to increase awareness of haemophilia, von Willebrand disease, and other inherited bleeding disorders.
• The increased awareness will increase better diagnosis and access to care for the millions who remain without treatment.

Theme:

• The theme of 2020 World Haemophilia Day is “Get+involved”. The theme aims to help increase the awareness of inherited bleeding disorders and the need to make access to adequate care possible everywhere in the world.

History:

• World Haemophilia Day was initiated by the World Federation of Haemophilia. The day has been observed since 1989 by worldwide patient groups. The date was chosen to honour the birth anniversary of the World Federation of Haemophilia founder Frank Schnabel.

Haemophilia:

• Haemophilia is a disorder in which the blood doesn’t clot normally. This disease will cause excessive bleeding after injury damage. The symptoms of the disease include deep bruises, joint pain, and swelling, unexplained bleeding and blood in urine or stool.

BANKING AND FINANCE CURRENT AFFAIRS

RBI released 49th round of OBICUS

• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released the 49th round of quarterly OBICUS (Order books, inventories, and capacity utilization survey) of the manufacturing sector.
• The survey includes the reference period January-March 2020.

OBICUS:

• The OBICUS survey will provide valuable input for monetary policy formulation.
• The Central Bank has conducted the OBICUS of the manufacturing sector on a quarterly basis since 2008.
• The data collected in the survey includes quantitative data on new orders received during the reference quarter, backlog of orders, pending orders, total inventories with a breakup between work-in-progress (WiP) and finished goods (FG) inventories and item-wise production.
• RBI also stated that the company level data collected during the survey will be treated as confidential and never disclosed.
• In the 48th round of the OBICUS for the quarter, October-December 2019 over 704 manufacturing companies were covered. The last survey showed that capacity utilization (CU) had declined to 68.6% in the third quarter of 2019-20 from 69.1% in the previous quarter.
• The orders that were received in the third quarter of the year 2019-20 were less when compared with the previous quarter.

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RBI: The Reserve Bank of India is India’s central banking institution, which controls the issuance and supply of the Indian rupee.

• Founded: 1 April 1935, Kolkata
• Headquarters: Mumbai
• Governor: Shaktikanta Das
• Deputy Governors: B P Kanungo, M K Jain, N S Vishwanathan

RBI cancels the licence of Mapusa Urban Co-operative Bank of Goa Ltd

• The licence of the Mapusa Urban Co-operative Bank of Goa Ltd. has been cancelled by the Reserve Bank of India.
• The central bank has issued an order, barring the bank to carry on banking business, with effect from the close of business on April 16, 2020.
• Hence, the Urban Co-operative Bank has been refrained from running the business of ‘banking’ which comprises of acceptance of deposits as well as repayment of deposits as defined in Section 5 (b) read with Section 56 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 with immediate effect.
• RBI has also requested the Central Registrar of Co-operative Societies, Government of India to issue an order for winding up the bank as well as to appoint a liquidator for the bank.
• The licence of the Mapusa Urban Co-operative Bank of Goa Ltd has been cancelled as the bank does not have adequate capital and earning prospects.
• The Urban Co-operative Bank also do not complies with the provisions of the section 11 (1) and section 22 (3) (d) read with section 56 along with some other sections of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949.
• RBI has stated in its order that the continuance of the bank is prejudicial to the interests of its depositors as the Urban Co-operative Bank is presently not in a position to pay its present depositors in full.

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RBI: The Reserve Bank of India is India’s central banking institution, which controls the issuance and supply of the Indian rupee.

• Founded: 1 April 1935, Kolkata
• Headquarters: Mumbai
• Governor: Shaktikanta Das
• Deputy Governors: B P Kanungo, M K Jain, N S Vishwanathan

HDFC Bank launches Safety Grid campaign for social distancing

• The HDFC Bank has launched Safety Grid campaign which was conceptualized by Leo Burnett India to help people maintain social distancing as prescribed by the World Health Organization (WHO) while waiting at shops during Lockdown.

Highlights:

• It has created physical makers on the ground using the outer grid of its logo at a distance of 1 meter from each outside the outlets like pharmacies, grocery stores, Automated teller machines (ATMs) among others.
• It has been implemented in Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Pune, Chandigarh and Bhubaneswar at 1,750 essential services stores & will be implemented at over 4,000 essential services stores across the 8 cities.

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HDFC:

• Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra
• Chairman: Deepak S. Parekh

NATIONAL CURRENT AFFAIRS

Agriculture Minister launches Kisan Rath Mobile App

• Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar launched Kisan Rath Mobile App to facilitate transportation of foodgrains and perishables during lockdown.
• This mobile application is developed by the National Informatics Centre to facilitate farmers and traders in searching transport vehicles for movement of Agriculture and Horticulture produce.
• Kisan Rath’ App will greatly facilitate farmers, FPOs and Cooperatives in the country to have the choice to find a suitable transport facility to transfer their agriculture produce from farm gate to markets.
• “Kisan Rath” facilitates Farmers and Traders in identifying right mode of transportation for movement of farm produce ranging from foodgrain, Fruits and Vegetables, oil seeds, spices, fiber crops, flowers, bamboo and coconuts.
• Transportation will become easier with this app as it will help farmers and traders for transporting produce from farm gate to mandi and mandi to mandi all over the country.
• The App will also facilitates traders in transportation of perishable commodities by Refrigerated vehicles.
• This Mobile App will be made available in eight languages in Android version initially, and is ready for pan-India use.

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The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, a branch of the Government of India, is the apex body for formulation and administration of the rules and regulations and laws related to agriculture in India. The three broad areas of scope for the Ministry are agriculture, food processing and co-operation.

• Founded: 1947
• Headquarters: New Delhi
• Jurisdiction: India

STATE CURRENT AFFAIRS

Chhattisgarh launched Cghaat website for online essential delivery

• Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh Bhupesh Baghel inaugurated the online delivery website ‘Cghaat’ on 16 April.
• Cghaat will facilitate doorstep delivery of fruits and vegetables during the extended lockdown phase due to contain COVID-19 spread.

About Cghaat:

• The web portal, cghaat.in, has been developed by Chhattisgarh government’s agency Chips.
• The fruit and vegetable vendors who are interested to provide services can register online through this portal.
• After registering, they can provide home delivery against online orders placed as soon as they receive Collector’s permission.
• Cghaat service is available free of charge to vendors.
• Customers interested in purchasing from the portal can also register free of charge and choose the vendor of their choice.
• Other essential items such as milk, groceries, forest-produce, etc is set to be delivered soon through the portal.
• The portal will come in handy for people who practice physical distancing and will also minimize the chances of crowding at the shops.

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Chhattisgarh:

• Formation: 1 November 2000
• Governor: Anusuiya Uikey
• Chief Minister: Bhupesh Baghel
• Literacy rate: 70.01% (2011 Census)
• Official language: Chhattisgarhi, Hindi

Delhi to begin clinical trial of plasma enrichment technique

• Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced that the Doctors will conduct the clinical trial of plasma enrichment technique to treat severely-ill coronavirus patients soon.

Clinical trial of plasma method:

• The clinical trial of the plasma method will be conducted in Delhi.
• If the trial is successful, the method will be implemented to save the lives of serious COVID-19 patients.
• The method was used in the past to treat diseases such as polio, measles, mumps, 1918 flu epidemic, and in previous outbreaks of respiratory infections namely H1N1 influenza, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS).
• Under the method, Plasma from the blood of the people who have recovered from COVID-19 will be collected. It is believed that it might contain antibodies to the virus that causes the disease and might be effective against the infection.

APPOINTMENT

Chess wizard Viswanathan Anand named ambassador of WWF India

• Chess Master Viswanathan Anand has been appointed as the new Ambassador for World Wide Fund (WWF) India’s Environment Education program.
• The Environment Education Program was formed in 1976.
• It reaches out to school children, youth and citizens across the country.
• The main objective of the organization is to generate critical thinking, problem-solving, and environmentally-conscious individuals.
• The Environment Education program impacts over 5 million children across 2000 schools.

BSNL CMD P K Purwar takes additional charge of MTNL

• The chairman and managing director of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), P. K. Purwar have been given the additional charge as CMD of Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL).
• This is the 3rd time Purwar has been given charge of MTNL CMD in the last six years.
• He has taken over the charge of CMD MTNL from April 15, 2020.
• He took charge as BSNL chairman in July 2019.

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BSNL:

• Headquarters: New Delhi.
• Established: 15 September 2000.

MTNL:

• Established: 1 April 1986.
• Headquarters: New Delhi.

IWF chief Tamas Ajan resigns during corruption investigation

• International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) President Tamas Ajan resigned within the wake of allegations of corruption and doping violations.
• American Ursula Papandrea will lead the federation as Acting President.
• Tamas Ajan was the Secretary-General of the International Weightlifting Federation from 1976 to 2000 and had been the President of IWF from 2000 to 2020.
• The Executive Board of IWF has accepted the resignation of Tamas Ajan as IWF President after 43 years of service to weightlifting.

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IWF: The International Weightlifting Federation, headquartered in Budapest, is the international governing body for the sport of Olympic weightlifting. The IWF was founded in 1905, and has 187 member nations. The IWF acting president is Ursula Papandrea of the United States.

• Headquarters location: Budapest, Hungary
• President: Tamás Aján
• Founded: 1905
• Affiliation: International Olympic Committee
• Abbreviation: IWF
• Type of business: Sports governing body

Rohit Sharma becomes brand ambassador for “CricKingdom”

• Limited-overs Vice-captain of Indian cricket team Rohit Sharma was named brand ambassador of “CricKingdom” a Dubai-based cricket coaching academy which provides a platform for online coaching after the global COVID-19 pandemic subsides.

Highlights:

• Provides support on booking of coaches, ground/nets with the management of academies.
• They are trying to merge the modern scientific training methods with the time-tested theories of the legends in the game.
• Link for registration: crickingdom.com/registration

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 CricKingdom:

• World’s first online platform to connect cricket players, coaches, students, academies and facilities.
• Co-founder/CEO– Chetan Suryawanshi
• Co-founder/CTO– Sesha Sayana
• Managing Director– Prashant Naik
• Mentor– Dhawal Kulkarni

SPORTS CURRENT AFFAIRS

BCCI suspends IPL 2020 due to Covid-19

• The Indian Premier League (IPL) governing council of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has decided that the IPL 2020 Season will be suspended till “further notice”.
• This decision is taken in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
• The IPL was set to start on March 29 and end on May 24, but it was first postponed till April 15 after a surge of coronavirus positive cases in India.
• All eight franchises were informed of the decision by IPL COO Hemang Amin.
• The eight franchises bought a total of 62 players spending Rs140.30 crores overall.
• The tournament’s stakeholders including players and the franchises will now be facing a financial setback due to the event’s suspension.

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BCCI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India is the national governing body for cricket in India. The board was formed in December 1928 as a society, registered under the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act.

• Secretary: Jay Shah
• Headquarters: Mumbai
• Vice president(s): Mahim Verma
• Founded: December 1928
• Women’s coach: W. V. Raman
• Presidents: C.K. Khanna, Sourav Ganguly

“Feifei” to be the mascot for Hangzhou 2022 Asian Para Games

• “Feifei” to be the mascot for Hangzhou 2022 Asian Para Games, China.
• The 4th Asian Para Games are going to be held from October 9-15, 2022, featuring 22 sports with Taekwondo and Para-Canoe to form their Games debuts.
• The mascot helps to bring the Games to life for everybody, from the athletes to the spectators.

About “Feifei” :

• The 1st ‘fei’ of the mascot means the birds flying, implying inclusiveness, respect, and fraternity of human society.
• Therefore, the 2nd ‘fei’ means the mental tenacity of the athletes with disabilities pursuing dreams and reaching beyond themselves.
• The planning of ‘Feifei’ is inspired by the motif of the ‘Divine Bird’ within the Liangzhu Culture.
• The mascot is that the fusion of Hangzhou’s heritage and its drive for technological innovation, carrying the looking for harmonious co-existence between humans and nature.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

DRDOs PPE testing facility shifted from DRDE Gwalior to INMAS Delhi

• Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) shifted its testing facility from Defence Research Development Establishment (DRDE), Gwalior to Institute of Nuclear Medicine & Allied Sciences (INMAS), New Delhi.
• The move is to overcome the time delays and to speed up delivery of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and masks.
• The DRDE, Gwalior has stood at the forefront in fighting COVID-19.
• It has now been tasked to do the testing of masks only received by HLL Lifecare Limited from foreign countries before it is distributed to various agencies.

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INMAS:

• Established: 1961
• Director: Dr. Ajay Kumar Singh
• Location: New Delhi
• INMAS is a premier Life Science Laboratory of DRDO.
• Currently, INMAS has been made fully operational for testing and evaluation of bodysuits and masks. More than 50 batches of these items have already been tested at the laboratory.

DRDO: The Defence Research and Development Organisation is an agency of the Government of India, charged with the military’s research and development, headquartered in Delhi India.

• Headquarters location: New Delhi
• Motto: बलस्य मूलं विज्ञानम्; “Strength’s Origin is in Science” (Sanskrit)
• Founded: 1958
• Minister responsible: Rajnath Singh, Minister of Defence

SCTIMST develops GeneLAMP-N makes confirmatory tests results of COVID-19 possible in 2 hours

• Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Trivandrum, has developed a diagnostic test kit that can confirm COVID-19 in 2 hours at a low cost.
• The method is expected to be the world’s first few methods.

Confirmatory diagnostic test kit:

• The confirmatory diagnostic test detects the N Gene of SARS-COV2 virus using reverse transcriptase loop-mediated amplification of viral nucleic acid (RT-LAMP).
• The test kit is funded by the DST called Chitra GeneLAMP-N.
• The kit is highly specific for SARS-CoV-2 N-gene and can detect two regions of the gene. It will ensure that the test does not fail even if one region of the viral gene undergoes mutation during its current spread.
• The tests were authorized by ICMR and performed at the National Institute of Virology (NIV) Alappuzha. It showed that Chitra GeneLAMP- N has 100% accuracy and match with test results using Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR).
• The testing facility can be easily set up even in the laboratories of district hospitals with limited facilities and trained laboratory technicians.
• The testing with the new device for LAMP testing and the test kit for 2 regions of N gene(including RNA extraction) will cost less than Rs.1000 per test for the laboratory.

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SCTIMST:

• SCTIMST was established in 1976 by GoI. The autonomous premier institute functions under the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Ministry of Science & Technology. It is located in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. It is one of the research Institutes and centers in India.

CeNS develops portable sensor to detect heavy metal ions in water

• Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences (CeNS) has developed a compact solid-state sensor that can detect the heavy metal ions in water.
• It was developed by a team of researchers led by Dr. Pralay K. Santra at the Centre for Nano and Soft Matter Sciences.

Need for the sensor:

• Heavy metal ions like mercury, lead, and cadmium show severe potential threats to living beings.
• These metal ions can easily be accumulated in the human body.
• It cannot be detoxified by any chemical or biological processes.
• The health hazards associated with heavy metal ions in water demands the development of efficient and portable sensors for rapid onsite detection of these ions. This need led to the development of visual sensors, which can effectively detect heavy metal ions rapidly (within seconds) under ambient conditions.

Compact solid-state sensor:

• Compact solid-state sensor is a portable device as the quantum dots can be excited with handheld UV light of 254 nm. It can help onsite detection in remote areas.
• The sensor can detect the heavy metal ions, for example, lead ions (Pb2+) down to 0.4 parts per billion (ppb) for efficient onsite detection.
• The sensor film was prepared by forming a composite between manganese doped zinc sulfide quantum dots and reduced graphene oxide on a glass substrate.
• These particular quantum dots are water-soluble and have high photoluminescence (~30 %) quantum yield, making them suitable for luminescence-based sensing.
• If a drop of water containing heavy metal ions such as mercury, lead, cadmium, etc. are added to the composite film, the emission of the film will be quenched within seconds.
• The team is currently developing strategies to improve the selectivity of the detection.

ICAR developed Pusa Decontamination and Sanitizing Tunnel

• Pusa Decontamination and Sanitizing Tunnel are developed by the Division of Agricultural Engineering, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (ICAR), New Delhi.
• The tunnel was inaugurated by the Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Kailash Choudhary on 16 April in New Delhi.

Pusa Decontamination and Sanitizing Tunnel:

• The sanitization protocol of the tunnel included handwashing with foot-operated soap and water dispenser and fogging in a sanitizing tunnel for 20 seconds.
• In the tunnel, Quaternary Ammonium Compounds (QAC) are used at a concentration of 0.045%, as per the recommendation of the Health Department.
• QAC are cationic detergents and disinfectants. It can be used to remove organic material. It will denature the proteins of the fungal or bacterial cell and affects the metabolic reactions of the cell and causes vital substances to leak out of the cell which will lead to the death of the virus.

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ICAR:

• Headquarters location: New Delhi
• Founded: 16 July 1929

IASST develops plasmonic semiconductor nanomaterials to remove toxic materials from water

• Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology (IASST), Assam is to develop plasmonic semiconductor nanomaterials for the removal of toxic organic compounds from water by harvesting solar light.
• Plasmonic semiconductor nanomaterials are metal-like materials with free electrons on the surface that oscillate collectively when hit by light.

Highlights:

• In this method, the solar light is utilized to increase the photocatalytic efficiency of nanomaterials to degrade pollutants and generate renewable Hydrogen.
• The researchers are trying to understand the science behind the photon accumulation and amplification of incident light by the plasmonic materials for this purpose.
• The materials that are being developed can easily adsorb toxic ions like arsenic and fluoride, which are often found in water in North East India and convert it to its non-toxic forms when they are exposed to sunlight.
• Plasmonic nanomaterials are used in the process for hydrogen energy generation which has shown high photon to hydrogen conversion efficiency under visible and near infra-red (IR) light.
• This method can remove the toxic contents in water to make the water suitable for drinking.

CCMB to develop Inactivated virus vaccine for novel coronavirus

• Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) is currently developing an inactivated virus vaccine for COVID-19.
• These inactivated vaccines are known for their safety and easy production.

What is an inactivated virus vaccine?

• Generally, the active virus is cultured in large numbers.
• They are then killed either by a chemical or heat.
• Although the pathogen is killed or made to lose its reproduction capacity, various parts of the virus, like the spike protein with which it enters the cells, remains intact.
• The antigen or the chemical structure that is recognized by the immune system will be left unimpaired.
• When this dead microbe is introduced, the immune system is tricked to respond by producing antibodies against specific antigens still left intact, without knowing that the pathogen is dud.
• Inactivated polio vaccine and the rabies vaccine are made this way.
• The pathogen cannot reproduce as they are dead and it can’t cause even a mild disease.
• Hence, it will be safe to administer to even people with lesser immunity, like the old and those who have comorbidity.
• If a large amount of virus is grown and made inactive, it will become a material for the candidate vaccine to be injected. Now the virus will not be active but the human body will recognize the proteins of the virus and start making antibodies against it. So, it acts as the inactivated virus vaccine.

Vaccine production:

• Vaccination is thought to be the most effective and sure way to arrest the progress and deadly effect of coronavirus.
• CCMB is using the epithelial cell line from African green monkeys grown in Petri dishes to artificially culture and harvest the deadly virus. The cells will be observed and if the cells show changes, including dying of cells and release of the virus, then the culture is positive. The researchers make an in-vitro system, which can be checked for its potential. The novel coronavirus grown in the cell culture will be harvested, inactivated and the vaccine would be developed.

OBITUARIES

NFL Hall of Famer Willie Davis passes away

• Former American football player Willie Davis passed away.
• He was inducted into the National Football League’s (NFL) Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1981.
• He becomes the first African-American captain in Green Bay Packers’ history in 1965.
• He played 12 seasons in the National Football League (NFL) and played for the Cleveland Browns (1958-59) and the Green Bay Packers (1960-69).

Freedom fighter R V Bhuskute passes away

• Freedom fighter R V Bhuskute, who had participated in the Quit India Movement passed away.
• Bhuskute wrote several books on land laws and worked for the release and rehabilitation of bonded labourers in tribal areas of the state.
• The Quit India Movement or India August Movement or Bharat Chodo Andolan started at the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) by Mahatma Gandhi on August 8, 1942.

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