1. Which of the following developed ‘Saiyam’ app to track home-quarantine?
a. Pune
b. Delhi
c. Lucknow
d. Mumbai
S-a
EXPLANATION-
• To track home quarantine people on a real-time basis, Pune Municipal Corporation has developed a mobile application named ‘Saiyam’.
• The mobile application has GPS tracking so that whenever quarantined citizens leave their homes, city administration gets alerted and the local ward or the local police station gets informed, who then visit the family.
• The teams will now check if those under home quarantine have downloaded the Saiyam Mobile Application. Through the mobile application, the administration can access the real-time data of the home-quarantine like movement, meeting other people and inform the local ward or police to take necessary action.
2. Which of the following states launched Apthamitra helpline, mobile app?
a. Karnataka
b. Punjab
c. Haryana
d. Andhra Pradesh
S-a
EXPLANATION-
• In a bid to empower people in the fight against COVID-19, Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa launched Apthamitra helpline with an exclusive toll free No: 14410 and Apthamitra mobile app.
• The main intention behind launching them is to reach out to people to help identify those having influenza-like illness (ILI), Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI), COVID-19-like symptoms or having high risk of getting infected.
• The two platforms also intend to identify persons with low risk but having some symptoms similar to COVID-19 and provide them telemedicine support with over-the-counter medicines and counsel them about the need to go through self-quarantine.
• Both the platforms aim at following up on all low-risk cases till they get fully cured. In addition to this, both aim at assessing those having medium to high risk of infection and getting them to fever clinics or screening centres for testing and treatment.
3. Which of the following is a paper-based test strip detects the new coronavirus within an hour and can now be the solution for India’s urgent need for rapid-testing?
a. FLEUDA
b. FUELDA
c. FISHER
d. FINISHED
S-a
EXPLANATION-
• A team led by two Bengali-origin scientists, Dr Souvik Maiti and Dr Debojyoti Chakraborty, at the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research’s Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB) in New Delhi, have come up with a simple 'strip-test' to tell you if you have COVID-19, in minutes.
• It is named after the Bengali sleuth.
• The 'Feluda' is a paper-based test strip detects the new coronavirus within an hour and can now be the solution for India’s urgent need for rapid-testing.
• The test uses the cutting-edge gene-editing tool- Crispr-Cas9 to target and identify the genomic sequences of the novel coronavirus in the samples of suspected individuals. This strip will be similar to a pregnancy test strip, and will not require any specialised skill and machines to perform, as is the case with other PCR-based tests. This strip will just change colour, and can be used in a simple pathological lab.
• The most important part is it will be 100 per cent accurate.
4. Which of the following states will provide an immediate relief of Rs 3,000 to each registered construction worker in the state?
a. Haryana
b. Punjab
c. West Bengal
d. Madhya Pradesh
S-b
EXPLANATION-
• Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has declared an immediate relief of Rs 3,000 to each registered construction worker in the state.
• The money would be transferred to their bank accounts in a bid to mitigate the hardships being faced by them in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.
• A total sum of Rs 96 crore has been earmarked for this purpose.
5. Which of the following states will provide under Mukhya Mantri Parivar Samriddhi scheme will be provided a sum of Rs 4,500 per month on weekly basis starting March 30?
a. Punjab
b. Haryana
c. Andhra Pradesh
d. Maharashtra
S-b
EXPLANATION-
• Those registered with the Haryana Board of Construction Workers but have not registered under Mukhya Mantri Parivar Samriddhi scheme will be provided a sum of Rs 4,500 per month on weekly basis starting March 30.
• The sum will be credited directly to their bank accounts.
• All BPL families who have not registered under MMPSY will be provided a sum of Rs 4,500 per month on weekly basis starting March 30.
