Current Affairs for BANK, IBPS Exams - 29 April 2021

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The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has set up two oxygen plants in All India Institute of Medical Science Trauma Centre and Ram ManoharLohia hospital in New Delhi as part of the plan to install five medical oxygen plants in Delhi and Haryana. The plants will start supplying oxygen to these facilities by Wednesday evening, the health ministry said. Around 500 such plants funded by the PM-Cares fund will be set up all across the country, the additional director.
The oxygen plant has a flow rate of 1,000 litres per minute and can cater to 190 patients at a time, the additional director, directorate of public interface, DRDO said on Wednesday, reported ANI.
"This plant has a capacity of 1,000 litres of oxygen per minute and at a time it will cater to 190 patients. It is being set up in five hospitals in Delhi-NCR," ANI quoted the additional director as saying.
As the country battles the destructive second wave of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) with an acute scarcity of medical oxygen, the additional director ensured to complete the installation of plants in the next two-to-three days.
"In 2-3 days we'll complete the installation of plants in Aiims (Jhajjar), RML, Safdarjung and Lady Hardinge Hospital. These plants are funded by PM-Cares fund & we'll set up 500 such plants across the country," ANI quoted the additional director as saying.

Since emerging as a global crisis in early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has had profound impacts everywhere. The pandemic has touched nearly every aspect of the world of work, from the risk of transmission of the virus in workplaces, to occupational safety and health (OSH) risks that have emerged as a result of measures to mitigate the spread of the virus.
Shifts to new forms of working arrangements, such as the widespread reliance on teleworking, have, for example, presented many opportunities for workers but also posed potential OSH risks, including psychosocial risks and violence in particular.
The World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2021 focuses on leveraging the elements of an OSH system as set out in the Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 2006 (No. 187). The world day report examines how the current crisis demonstrates the importance of strengthening these OSH systems, including occupational health services, at both the national and undertaking level.
The ILO will take this opportunity to raise awareness and stimulate dialogue on the importance of creating and investing in resilient OSH systems, drawing on both regional and country examples in mitigating and preventing the Spread of COVID-19 at the workplace.

The made-in India Covaxin vaccine, developed by Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech, can neutralise the B1617 variant of coronavirus, said White House's chief medical adviser Dr Anthony Fauci.
"Now, this is something we are still gaining data on, but most recent data looking at convalescent sera of Covid-19 cases in people who received Covaxin, it was found to neutralise the 617 variant," Fauci was quoted as saying during the White House press briefing.
Fauci, who is US President Joe Biden's chief adviser on the Covid pandemic, quoted the recent Phase 3 clinical trials of Covaxin by ICMR, which claimed that the vaccine neutralises multiple variants of SARS-CoV-2 and effectively neutralises the double mutant strain (B1617) as well. He called "vaccination an important antidote".

Python-5 is a fifth-generation air-to-air missile (AAM) manufactured by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. It is the newest member in the range of Python AAMs. The missile can engage enemy aircraft from very short ranges and near beyond visual range. Python-5 is the most accurate and reliable AAM of the Israeli Air Force and one of the most sophisticated guided missiles in the world.
The development on the Python-5 began in the 1990s. The missile was unveiled for the first time during the Paris Air Show in June 2003. The missile demonstrated superior target detection and tracking capabilities during the developmental and operational test programme, involving captive carry evaluation and homing trials.
The first operational kill by Python-5 was in August 2006 during the Lebanon War. The missile was fired from an F-16 Fighting Falcon and destroyed an Iranian-made Ababil-T UAV launched by the Hezbollah. In October 2012, a Python missile launched from an F-16I fighter of the Israeli Air Force successfully intercepted an Iranian-made unmanned aerial vehicle intruding into Israeli air space. The Israeli Air Force plans to arm the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighters with Python-5 missiles.