Latest Current Affairs: 6 April 2020

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Current Affairs
6th APRIL 2020
Home minister Amit shah approves Rs 11,092 crore for all states to deal
with coronavirus
  • The Union Minister for Home Affairs, Shri Amit Shah has approved the
    release of Rs. 11,092 crores to all States under the State Disaster Risk
    Management Fund (SDRMF) for 2020-21 after the Chief Ministers raised the issue
    of lack of funds in the state during a meeting through video conferencing with
    Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi.

Bione launches
India’s 1st home screening test kit for COVID-19
  • To
    take the test using the kit one has to clean the finger with an alcohol swab
    and use the lancet provided to finger-prick & the provided cartridge reads
    the results within 5-10 minutes.
  • The prices of the
    kit ranges from Rs. 2,000 to 3,000 & it will be delivered within 2-3 days
    of ordering.
  • The easy-to-use kit
    will be deployed in the market after quality checks & approvals from the
    regulatory authority.

  • Regardless of the
    results in the screening kit, the company advises people to undergo laboratory
    testing if someone shows signs of coronavirus.
  • Earlier the company
    had also developed a Microbiome test kit to check gut dysbiosis and also
    genetic tests to predict susceptibility to contagious diseases.

ICMR: Indian Council of Medical Research
Formation:
1911 (as IRFA – Indian Research Fund Association),
1949 renamed to ICMR
Headquarters: New Delhi
Coronavirus: IIT
Roorkee in association with AIIMS-Rishikesh prepares low-cost portable ventilator
‘Prana-vayu’
  • IIT (Indian Institute of Technology)- Roorkee, Uttarakhand in
    collaboration with AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Science) Rishikesh,
    Uttarakhand, has developed a low-cost portable ventilator called ‘Prana-vayu’
    costing just Rs.25,000.
  • The commercial product will be around 1.5 feet by 1.5 feet for better
    portability.
  • This closed loop ventilator equipped with state-of-the-art facilities
    & can prove useful in ensuring the safety of coronavirus (Covid-19) patients.
  • The ventilator is based on the controlled operation of the prime mover to
    deliver the required amount of air to the patient. Its automatic process
    regulates the pressure and flow rate according to breathing and release. The
    ventilator also has an arrangement that can control the tidal volume and breathe
    per minute.
  • The ventilator is beneficial for patients of all ages, especially the
    elderly, with being useful in major obstructions of the respiratory tract.
  • The research began at the Tinkering Laboratory in IIT-Roorkee by a team
    of  IIT Roorkee consists of Prof. Akshay
    Dvivedi and Prof. Arup Kumar Das who received online support from Debendra
    Tripathi from AIIMS, Rishikesh.
SEBI whole time member (WTM) Madhabi Puri Buch gets 6 month extension
  • The Government has extended the appointment
    of Madhabi Puri Bach as a whole time member (WTM) of the Securities and Exchange
    Board of India (SEBI) by a period of 6 months (till October 4, 2020).

  • She was appointed as a WTM of SEBI for a
    period of 3 years in April 2017 whereas all the appointed members and Chairman
    of SEBI were only men from the public sector, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) or
    the Indian Administrative Service (IAS).
Madhabi Puri Bach: She was not only the first woman to be
appointed as a WTM of SEBI but also the first person from the private sector.
In SEBI, she handles a range of departments from market and market
intermediaries regulation to integrated surveillance and economic and policy
analysis.
2022 Asian Games mascot “smart triplets” unveiled at digital ceremony
in Hangzhou, China
  • The official mascots of the 19th Asian Games,
    to be from 10 to 25 September 2022, were unveiled at a 20 minutes digital
    launch ceremony in Hangzhou, China. The ceremony was conducted online due to
    the coronavirus pandemic.
  • There are three mascots namely Congcong,
    Lianlian and Chenchen, which represents the UNESCO (United Nations Educational,
    Scientific and Cultural Organization) World Heritage sites of Hangzhou in
    eastern China.

  • These three mascots for the XIX Asiadare
    collectively known as the “smart triplets”.
  • Congcong– It represents the Archaeological Ruins of
    Liangzhu City. It takes yellow, the colour of earth and bumper harvest, as the
    main tone.
  • Lianlian– It represents the West Lake and green is
    its main tone as green stands for life and nature.
  • Chenchen– It represents the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand
    Canal with blue color as the main tone as latter represents science and
    technology.

Asian Games 2022:
It should be noted that these will be the
third Asian Games to be hosted by China following Beijing 1990 and Guangzhou
2010.
Motto: Heart to Heart, @Future
Location: Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Short
Notes
  • Hockey India donates additional 75
    lakh rupees towards PM-CARES Fund.
  • US President Donald Trump had
    requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to supply hydroxychloroquine tablet that
    can be used to treat COVID-19 patients..

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