COVID TRIAGE CHALLENGE Subject: Science & tech Context: The second COVID-19 wave has hit India with great ferocity. A time-tested, effective strategy could help tackle COVID-19 but poses unique challenges in India. Concept: A time-tested, effective strategy to face the challenge of a sudden large load on the healthcare system is the concept […]

    HERD IMMUNITY Subject: Science & tech Context: Despite serosurveys indicating many metros such as Delhi, Mumbai, and Pune having reached high levels of immunity, the same cities are seeing an explosive surge. Concept: Herd immunity happens when so many people in a community become immune to an infectious disease that it stops the […]

    DEEP TIME STUDY Subject : Science & tech Context : A group of French volunteers have emerged from a cave after a 40-day study exploring the limits of human adaptability to isolation. The so-called Deep Time experiment came to an end, allowing the eight men and seven women, aged 27 to 50, who […]

    LIQUID OXYGEN Subject : Science & tech Context :Invoking the Disaster Management Act, the Centre ordered States that all liquid oxygen, including the existing stock with private plants, should be made available to the government and will be used for medical purposes only. Concept : Liquid oxygen—abbreviated LOx, LOX or Lox in the […]

    CYBERCRIME VOLUNTEER Subject : Science & tech Context : The Union Home Ministry has said it does not maintain a centralised list of volunteers enrolled under the cybercrime volunteer programme since the police is a “State subject” under the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution. Concept : The Ministry, through its cybercrime grievance portal, […]

    REMDESIVIR Subject: Science & tech Context: Gilead to send Remdesivir vials to India, US stands by India to help fight COVID-19 2nd wave. Concept: Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) will have to issue an import license to bring the Gilead’s Remdesivir stocks to India. The volume of this is still not known, […]

    SPACE X CREW DRAGON CAPSULE Subject: Science & tech Context: SpaceX launches its third astronaut crew, the first on a used Crew Dragon capsule. Concept: SpaceX launched its third crew of astronauts to the International Space Station early Friday morning, reusing a Crew Dragon space capsule to fly humans for the first time. […]

    REPRODUCTIVE NUMBER Subject: Science & tech Context: On reproduction metric, Covid can be spreading faster in UP, Jharkhand and Bihar. Concept: The R-naught, or R0, is a virus’s basic reproductive number — an epidemiologic metric used to describe the contagiousness of infectious agents. At its simplest, the basic reproductive number can show us […]

    OXYGEN CONCENTRATORS Subject: Science & tech Context: With oxygen cylinders in short supply across several states, the Oxygen concentrator is among the most sought after devices for oxygen therapy, especially among patients in home isolation and for hospitals running out of oxygen. Concept: An oxygen concentrator is a medical device that concentrates oxygen […]

    UNICORN Subject: Science & tech Context: Scientists have discovered what may be the smallest-known black hole in the Milky Way galaxy and the closest to our solar system. Concept: Nicknamed ‘Unicorn’ the researchers said the black hole is roughly three times the mass of our Sun, testing the lower limits of size for […]