IASbhai DAILY UPSC CURRENT AFFAIRS (THE HINDU+LIVEMINT+PIB)
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Drug for sepsis to be tested for COVID-19
HEADLINES:
Drug for sepsis to be tested for COVID-19
WHY IN NEWS:
It will be administered to 50 patients at AIIMS and PGIMER
SYLLABUS COVERED: GS 3:Health:Diseases
ISSUE:
Race for cure: Existing drugs are being used in trials to fight COVID-19.
CAN SUCH DRUG BE USED ON COVID-19 PATIENTS?
IIIM is a CSIR laboratory and was involved in the early development of Sepsivac.
- Sepsivac was originally developed for treating sepsis by a class of pathogens called gram negative bacteria, that are known to cause life-threatening infections.
- Given the similarities in the immune-system response in critically ill COVID-19 patients, it is theorised, the therapy could stimulate a benign response.
CHALLENGES :
- Cytokines also cause inflammation of organs and can be counter-productive in protecting the body.
- Keeping them in check is the goal of so called immuno-modulators, or medicines like Sepsivac.
IASbhai WINDUP:
Previous randomised trials in sepsis patients showed 11% absolute reduction and 55.5% relative reduction in mortality.
Sepsivac reduces the days on ventilator, in ICU and hospital and incidence of secondary infection, Cadilla Pharmaceuticals have claimed on their website.
SOURCES:THE HINDU & PIB/DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS for UPSC CSE Prelims & Mains
@CovidIndiaSeva
HEADLINES:
@CovidIndiaSeva launched
WHY IN NEWS:
People can pose queries and get answers on Twitter
SYLLABUS COVERED: GS 3:Health:Diseases
ISSUE:
COVID INDIA SEVA
- People can pose queries @CovidIndiaSeva and get answers in almost real time.
- The @CovidIndiaSeva works off a dashboard at the backend that helps process large volumes of tweets, converts them into resolvable tickets and assigns them to the relevant authority for real-time resolution, the statement said.
- “Trained experts will share authoritative public health information swiftly at scale, helping to build a direct channel for communication with citizens,” .
IASbhai WINDUP:
Twitter has proved to be an essential service for both the government and citizens to interact and exchange information, especially in times of need
SOURCES:THE HINDU & PIB/DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS for UPSC CSE Prelims & Mains
UN: global hunger could double
HEADLINES:
UN: global hunger could double due to COVID-19
WHY IN NEWS:
The number of people facing acute food insecurity could nearly double this year to 265 million due to the economic fallout of COVID-19, the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday.
SYLLABUS COVERED: GS 2:UNO
ISSUE:
IMPORTANT OBSERVATIONS:
- “COVID-19 is potentially catastrophic for millions who are already hanging by a thread,”.
- “We all need to come together to deal with this because if we don’t the cost will be too high,” .
IASbhai WINDUP:
It was critical to act quickly in order to prevent people already living hand-to-mouth, such as food vendors in Kenya, from selling their assets as it could take them years to become self-reliant again.
SOURCES:THE HINDU & PIB/DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS for UPSC CSE Prelims & Mains
Saiyam App
HEADLINES:
Pune’s mobile App Saiyam tracks Home Quarantined Citizens
WHY IN NEWS:
In order to effectively track the home-quarantines citizens and ensure they are actually staying in the home, a mobile application named Saiyam has been developed by the Pune Municipal Corporation under Smart Cities Mission (SCM).
SYLLABUS COVERED: GS 3:Digital India : App
ISSUE:
KEY FEATURES:
- City administration has taken administrative measures complemented by technology solutions to monitor home quarantined citizens.
- The city administration has appointed dedicated teams for five zones to conduct a follow-up with people under home quarantine on a daily basis.
- The teams will check on people who have recently returned from international trips and those discharged after treatment for COVID-19.
- Accordingly, the teams will seek updates from quarantined people on their health status and details of persons in contact with them.
- For persons sporting the home quarantine stamp, the teams will check if separate food, bed, utensils, clothes and washrooms are provided to them.
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.
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These identified citizens are advised to keep the GPS feature on the device always switched-on and the mobile device should be switched-on throughout the 24 hours, during the quarantine period.
An illustration of the dashboard monitoring home quarantined citizens is given below:
Real-time Tracking of the movements of home-quarantined citizens is shown below:
IASbhai WINDUP:
Citizens’ movements can be monitored centrally real-time from the monitoring cell and are marked as Red, Amber or Green.:
Red signifies that the person has ventured out for longer duration;
Yellow signifies that the person has limited movements and
Green signifies that the person is confined to house limits.
SOURCES:THE HINDU & PIB/DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS for UPSC CSE Prelims & Mains
Let us ‘Discuss’
IASbhai WINDUP:
Let us know what you think about this in the comment section.
SOURCES:THE HINDU/DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS for UPSC CSE Prelims & Mains
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