Climate Change May Have Directly Influenced the Emergence of Covid
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In fact, ac- WHAT cording to Zurab Pololikashvili, the secretary- India, with 24 per cent, was With countries across the world focussed on general of the United Nations World Tourism ranked at number one, followed coronavirus vaccination, governments and air- Organisation, such passes could be essential by Indonesia at 10 per cent lines are resorting to 'vaccine passports' as a to restart the tourism industry. feasible certificate that would make travelling, Telegram reached the top posi- amid the pandemic era, hassle-free. A vacci- THE PASS WILL BE MADE: tion in the overall downloads nation pass or passport is a documentation, There is no clarity as to (non-game) on Google Play Store, which states that an individual has been vacci- HOW how these passes will be moving from ninth position in nated against Covid-19. Some versions will also developed. Biometrics company iProov and cy- allow people to show that they have ber security firm Mvine, which have built a vac- the previous month, December tested negative for the virus. cine pass, now being tested within Britain's Na- 2020 tional Health Service after receiving the UK The app also entered the list of Governments and the government's funding, are of the view that apart developers around the from the facial identity of the traveller, such top 10 most-downloaded (non- WHY world are exploring the vaccine passports will require information on game) apps on the App Store, potential use of vaccine passports as a way to whether a person has been vaccinated. directly gaining the fourth position X-PLAINED WHICH COUNTRIES & AIRLINES ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO IT? MAJOR CHALLENGES Henry Cavill's US President Joe Biden has a sports or any cultural event Some experts feel that vaccine Superman not a asked his government agencies ARE THE PASSES certificates raise huge social The Etihad Airways and to “assess the feasibility” of 1 and political issues. Potential part of 'Shazam! Emirates are set to start using AVAILABLE IN INDIA? linking coronavirus vaccine issues could arise around discrimina- a digital travel pass, devel- certificates with other vaccina- tion, privilege, and exclusion of the Fury Of The Gods' oped by the International Air The Indian government is tion documents younger generation, who would be last ctor Henry Cavill will not appear Transport Association, to help unlikely to issue in line to be vaccinated as Superman in the upcoming Two Nordic countries, passengers manage coronavirus vaccine WHAT cation cards, digital documents that Afilm, ‘Shazam! Fury Of The Sweden and Denmark, have their travel plans show vaccine status may heighten Gods’. In an attempt to ad- passports in the DOES Moreover, experts apprehend announced that they would and provide air- inequality and risk, leaving many dress rumours of Cavill's ap- WHO HAVE TO that creating a document or pearance in the sequel, the start the development of digi- lines and govern- near future people behind SAY ABOUT THE app that is accepted around the film’s director David F Sand- tal vaccine certificates to be ments documenta- 2 PASSPORT? world, which protects the privacy of berg tweeted: "Not going to used for travel, and potentially tion that they Technologists and travel indus- comment on casting ru- While the World Health the user and is accessible to people more. The countries said, the have been try experts believe that mours for several rea- Organisation (WHO) is in favour of regardless of their wealth, or access sons. One being you certificates would be designed vaccinated or although it is possible to rush countries issuing vaccination certificates, to smartphones, is the biggest chal- 3 can't be sure about to enable citizens to travel tested nega- the WHO Europe director Hans Kluge has tech solutions that allow people to anything until it's abroad. They have also hinted tive for lenge. In a world, where more than said that he was opposed to the idea of vac- have one-use apps, creating long-last- happened. that they could potentially be Covid-19 one billion people aren’t able to Halfway through cination passports required for travel. "We ing ethical technology or systems that used to check whether some- prove their identity because they shooting ‘Shaz- don't want to have a situation where there will not store people’s data, or make it one was vaccinated, and if they lack passports, birth certificates, am', the plan was are so-called vaccine passports, as it will possible to track where they are, will still for Cavill to were attending something like driving licenses or national identifi- increase inequities," he said be time consuming be in it. Scoopers could have scooped that and been right at the In which country time but wrong in Stephen King's NEWS IN the end," Sandberg Amanda Gorman becomes first poet UES is Asia’s highest- posted. CLUESCL volcano located? MOVIES 'Rita Hayworth' out to perform at the Super Bowl Actor Zachary Levi will CLUE 1: It’s home to the third-highest number reprise superhero Shazam in the film manda Gorman, as standalone book Gorman read an original poem Dorner and Marine veteran of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Asia. that also stars Asher Angel, Jack the 22-year-old A on Sunday during the pre- James Martin CLUE 2: It’s also known as the 'nose job capital Dylan Grazer, Meagan Good, and poet, who stirred cclaimed author Stephen King's ‘Rita game festivities in Gorman, previously the coun- of the world'. Faithe Herman Hayworth and Shawshank America at the inau- Tampa, Florida The try's first National Youth Poet CLUE 3: 70% of the world’s saffron is The film was originally scheduled guration of President poem, titled 'Chorus of Laureate, was the youngest A Redemption’, a tale of unjust impris- produced here. to release in April 2022, but has Joe Biden last month, the Captains', was a person to ever recite a poem onment and offbeat escape, which was the been pushed due to the Covid out- again commanded tribute to three people at the US presidential inaugura- basis for Oscar-nominated ‘The Shawshank ANSWER: Islamic Republic of Iran. The country’s the spotlight on one for their contributions tion Her reading of 'The Hill break Redemption’, is now available for the first time Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said that of the country's during the pandemic: We Climb' at the Capitol The first Shazam was released in as a standalone book. ES Iran will return to compliance with the 2015 nuclear biggest stages, the educatorC TrimaineLU Davis, immediately became a 2019, and the film went on to make deal, only if the US lifted the sanctions imposed on it nurse manager Suzie sensation $365 million at the box office Super Bowl. by the Donald Trump administration in 2018 BOOK Climate change may have directly influenced the emergence of Covid virus ’Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption’ Researchers at the University of According to researchers, cli- tional 40 bat species have moved is regarded as one of King's most-iconic stories, Cambridge have revealed a and it helped make Castle Rock a place readers matic changes, including an into the southern Chinese Yunnan would return to over and over again mechanism that suggests how increase in temperature, sunlight, province in the past century, har- and atmospheric carbon dioxide, bouring around 100 more types of Suspenseful, mysterious, and heart-wrench- climate change could have played which affect the growth of plants bat-borne coronavirus, becoming ing, this novella, populated by a cast of unfor- a direct role in the emergence of and trees, have changed natural a global hotspot gettable characters, is about a fiercely-com- habitats— from tropical shrubland pelling convict named Andy Dufresne, who is SARS-CoV-2, the virus that This 'global hotspot' is the between animals and viruses, to tropical Savannah and decidu- The world's bat seeking his ultimate revenge caused the Covid-19 pandemic. region where genetic data sug- causing more harmful viruses to ous woodland, creating a suitable gests SARS-CoV-2 may have arisen population car- be transmitted or evolve Originally published in 1982 in the collection environment for many bat species ries around 3,000 The new study revealed large- As climate change altered habi- An increase in the number of ‘Different Seasons’ (alongside ‘The Body’, ‘Apt that pre-dominantly live in forests different types of coron- tats, species left some areas and bat species in a particular region, Pupil,’ and ‘The Breathing Method’), it was scale changes in the type of avirus, with each bat The number of coronaviruses in moved into others, taking their driven by climate change, may adapted on the big screen in 1994.