Current Affairs for BANK, IBPS Exams - 28 April 2021

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Brazil's health regulator Anvisa voted against importing the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine on Monday.
The health regulator said that due to lack of "consistent and reliable data," its board had unanimously decided to recommend against the import of Sputnik V.
About 14 states in Brazil had appealed for an urgent import of Sputnik to counter a growing wave of COVID-19 infections.
The country has over 14 million recorded cases with a death toll approaching 400,000

Sputnik V slams move
"Anvisa's delays in approving Sputnik V are unfortunately of a political nature and have nothing to do with access to information or science," the official Sputnik V Twitter account said.
Anvisa said that it wasn't flexible in terms of "product safety."
Gustavo Mendes, the medicines and biological products manager of Anvisa, said that a crucial issue the board noticed was the presence of adenovirus in the vaccine, which could produce a "serious" defect.
The decision follows a previous statement from Anvisa, expressing "critical issues" around the effectiveness of the vaccine.
It pointed to a recent US government report that said Washington had tried to persuade Brazil not to use Sputnik.
"The United States Department of Health, in its 2020 annual report several months ago, publicly stated that the United States health attache 'persuaded Brazil to reject the Russian vaccine against COVID-19,'" the account added.

Sputnik V has been approved in several countries, including India. However, the EU hasn't yet followed suit, saying it needs more information on the tests and manufacturing process of the jab.
Russian scientists claim that the vaccine is 97.6% effective against COVID-19, based on data collected from 3.8 million people in a "real world" assessment.

The 'billionaire' space race' has heated up with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and English business magnate Richard Branson competing against each other with recent manned trips to the frontiers of space. American entrepreneur Elon Musk is also close, with his company SpaceX collaborating with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) to launch scientific probes to the cosmos. Now, the billionaires in the competition have a new rival to tackle -- Porsche SE.
Porsche SE is the dynasty that owns a controlling stake in Volkswagen AG, the owner of German automobile manufacturer Porsche. In a press release issued on Wednesday, Porsche Automobil Holding SE informed that it has invested in Isar Aerospace, a Munich-based company that develops and manufactures launch vehicles for the transport of satellites.
Although Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin, Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, and Elon Musk's Tesla are all backed by billionaires taking on each other with manned space missions, Porsche on the other hand, with the help of Isar Aerospace, intends to make headway in the growing market for rocket technology for launching small satellites into Earth's orbit.
As part of a $165 million funding round, Porsche SE is investing alongside venture capital company HV Capital and Swiss bank Lombard Odier to inject $75 million into Isar Aerospace, reported CNN. Porsche has acquired "a low single-digit percentage stake", the company informed in an official release.

PV Sindhu created history on Sunday by winning the bronze medal match against China's He Bing Jiao at the Tokyo Olympics. She won the crucial encounter 21-13, 21-15 to become the first Indian woman ever to win two individual Olympic medals. She had lost the final of the women's singles event at the 2016 Rio Olympics to settle for a silver medal.
Sindhu needed to start strong in the match to get her self-confidence up, which must have been rattled by the one-sided semi-final loss on Saturday to Tai Tzu-Ying.