Topics Covered: Issues related to health. Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination What to study? For Prelims: Use and applicability of this vaccine, what is TB? For Mains: Criticisms wrt the recent report on usage of this vaccine to treat COVID 19. Context: According to a US-based research, a combination of reduced morbidity and mortality could make …
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Context: Present healthcare system: As India enters the second week of a national lockdown imposed in response to COVID-19, it is still unclear how well prepared the healthcare system is in dealing with the pandemic. Given the resource constraints of both the Central and State governments, it is clear that government hospitals alone will …
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Introduction: The agriculture labour market has already been massively impacted. Not allowed to work in groups, 30 million agricultural labourers, who survive on their daily income, are without work. The situation has been aggravated in many parts of the country where there are specialized farm practices which are usually done by the manual …
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Introduction: Spread of Covid-19: The coronavirus’s flight across the world at lightning speed, has exposed the total void in collective leadership at the global level. Three months into the catastrophic war declared by an invisible, almost invincible virus, that is rapidly gobbling up human lives, regardless of citizenship and race, and contemptuously ravaging economies …
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Topics Covered: Biotech related issues. Convalescent plasma therapy What to study? For Prelims and Mains: Key features and overview of the therapy, its significance. Context: As the proportion of patients infected with COVID-19 continues to rise in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration is facilitating access to COVID-19 convalescent plasma for use in …
Context: The coronavirus outbreak came to light when on December 31, 2019, China informed the World Health Organisation of a cluster of cases of pneumonia of an unknown cause in Wuhan City in Hubei province. On January 9, 2020, WHO issued a statement saying Chinese researchers have made “preliminary determination” of the virus as a …
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