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“Caruna” launched by Civil Servants to fight COVID-19

April 5, 2020
caruna
  • Civil Servant Officers’ Association has launched “Caruna” initiative to support the government’s efforts to tackle coronavirus.
  • Caruna stands for “Civil Services Associations Reach to Support in Natural Disasters“

“Prana-Vayu” low-cost ventilator developed by IIT-Roorkee

April 5, 2020
prana vayu
  • To tackle the urgent demand of the ventilators in country due to COVID-19 IIT-Roorkee in collaboration with AIIMS-Rishikesh, Uttarakhand has developed a very low-cost portable prana-vayu ventilator 
  • This portable ventilator will be available at a cost of Rs. 25000 only

Salary of Pm, President, and MPs to be cut by 30%

April 5, 2020
salary cut
  • All members of the parliament including the president, prime minister, and all the other MPs will face a salary cut of 30% for the next 1 year from 1 April 2020.
  • This ordinance has been passed due to the outbreak of the COVID-19.

Mascots of 19th Asian games unveiled

April 5, 2020
the smart triplets
  • Official mascots of 19th Asian Games that are scheduled to be held in Hangzhou, China have been released.
  • ” The smart triplets” has been officially chosen as the mascot of the 19th Asian Games that are going to be held in 2022.

“CAWACH” response center set up by Dept. of Science and Technology

April 4, 2020
dept of science and technology
  • Center for Augmenting War with COVID-19 Health Crisis( CAWACH), a rapid response center has been set up by Dept of Science and Technology.
  • It has been set up with a total cosst of 56 crore at Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship(SINE), IIT Bombay.
  • It has been set up to support startups that are working to find some innovating solutions for the COVID-19

Hackathon ” Hack the Crisis-India ” launched

April 4, 2020
hack the crisis in india
  • Hackathon “Hack the crisis-India” has been organized by “Hack a cause-India” and ” Ficci Ladies Organization Pune” along with the support of the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India.

World-famous Virologist “Gita Ramjee” passed away.

April 4, 2020
gita ramjee
  • “Gita Ramjee” a well-known virologist from South Africa passed away due to the Novel coronavirus.
  •  She was conferred with the Outstanding female scientist award in Lisbon, in 2018 for her research and commitment to finding new HIV prevention methods.

Global Economy can suffer a loss of USD 4 Trillion due to COVID-19: ADB

April 4, 2020
ADB
  • Due to Global Coronavirus Pandemic, Asian Development Bank(ADB) has projected that the global economy can suffer a whooping loos of USD 4 trillion as most of the countries are under partial/complete lockdown and the substantial decrease in import/export of countries. 

All health insurance policies to cover COVID hospitalization expenses: IRDAI

April 4, 2020
IRDAI

Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India(IRDAI) has made it mandatory to cover hospitalization charges of COVID-19 to protect patients from the financial burden due to this pandemic under the standard insurance Product “Aarogya Sanjeevani”

Telecom service providers and C-DOT develop COVID Quarantine alert system

April 4, 2020
C-DOT
    • In order to keep corona virus positive quarantined  patients within the quarantines area, telecom service providers and The Centre for Development of Telematics(C-DOT) has developed an application that can alert through SMS or e-mail  in case if quarantined patient leaves the quarantine zone.