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CURRENT AFFAIRS- 2020 April: Questions & Answers (Chapter - 02)

CURRENT AFFAIRS- 2020 April (Chapter - 02) 
Questions & Answers
36. Name the person who has won the William E. Colby Award 2020 for his book titled “Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster”.
- Adam Higginbotham 

37. Which municipal corporation has developed “Saiyam” mobile app to track home, quarantined people? 
- Pune 

38. Name the Indian state which has launched ‘Chief Minister COVID-19 Yoddha Kalyan Yojana’ to benefit Anganwadi workers & Assistants. 
- Madhya Pradesh 

39. Find the Indian ministry which has formulated colour codes (Red, Orange, Green zones) for Lockdown 2.0. 
- Ministry of Health and Family Welfare 

40. Name the 1st Indian state which carried out the rapid testing for COVID-19. 
- Rajasthan 

41. South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s party wins election amid COVID-19 pandemic. He belongs to which party? 
- Democratic Party 

42. Ministry of Home Affairs has issued the advisory to safeguard private individuals from using which video conferencing application? 
- Zoom 

43. Name the 1st Indian city which announced face mask is mandatory in public places. 
- Mumbai 

44. Name the countries other than ASEAN countries which attended ASEAN plus three summits on COVID-19 response. 
- China, Japan, South Korea 

45. Name the person who has been appointed as the ambassador of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) India’s environmental education programme. 
- Viswanathan Anand 

46. The World Haemophilia Day is celebrated annually on April 17. What is the theme for the day for the year 2020? 
- Get+involved 

47. Name the app which is fastest in the world to reach 5 crore downloads in just 13 days. 
- AarogyaSetu 
Aarogya Setu, a mobile app developed by the ministry of electronics and IT to help citizens identify their risk of contracting Covid-19 (coronavirus), has notched up more than 10 million downloads since its launch five days ago.

48. What is the official mascot of 4th Asian Para Games 2022 which was released recently? 
- Fei Fei 

49. Name the 1st Indian state which initiated pool testing for COVID-19 (Approved by ICMR)
- Uttar Pradesh 

50. Name the Indian ministry which has announced COVID-19 training program for health care professionals of SAARC countries. 
- Ministry of External Affairs 

51. Jim Corbett National park has become India’s 1st Quarantine centre for animals. Where does Jim Corbett National park locate? 
- Uttarakhand 

52. Which Indian Ministry has launched the Webinar series named “DekhoApnaDesh”? 
- Tourism Ministry 

53. Find the airline company which launches India’s first cargo-on-seat flights to carry essentials amid Covid-19. 
- SpiceJet 

54. Writer Abdelouahab Aissaoui has won the 13th International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) 2020 for his novel ‘The Spartan Court’. He belongs to which country? 
- Algeria 

55. Name the 1st state in India which integrates Ayurveda and Allopathy to boost the immunity of COVID-19 patients. 
- Goa 

56. Name the Indian Ministry which has launched the web portal named ‘YUKTI’ to record and monitor the effectiveness and initiatives of the ministry. 
- Ministry of Human Resource and Development 

57. Name the railway station which is 1st in Indian Railways to install sanitizing tunnels. 
- Ahmedabad railway station 

58. Name the University which has launched the world’s 1st COVID-19 Government Response tracker. 
- University of Oxford 

59. Name the initiative which was launched by Human Resource and Development Ministry along with AICTE for students to fight COVID-19. 
- Samadhan 

60. Name the Indian state which has deployed India’s 1st automated “COVID- 19 Monitoring System Application”. 
- Telangana 

61. Name the initiative launched by civil services officer’s association to fight COVID-19.
- Caruna [Civil Services Associations Reach to Support in Natural Disasters]

62. Name the Central government’s 1st comprehensive COVID-19 tracking app. 
- AarogyaSetu 

63. Which is the first Indian state to get approval from the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) for ‘pool testing’ the samples for Covid-19?
- Uttar Pradesh

64. Which Indian state/UT has claimed to be the first in the country to be coronavirus-free?
- Goa

65. Which state/UT has bagged three national awards for outstanding contribution by its Panchayati Raj Institutions in socio-economic development projects? 
- Jammu and Kashmir

66. When did the largest hole in the Ozone layer spreading over 1 million square kilometres above the Arctic that was closed due to unusual atmospheric conditions found?
- March 2020


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