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Today Current Affairs for Competitive Exams - Current Affairs 2021 Online 1st batch of Covid-19 vaccines for animals The government will take the responsibility of family members of health workers who have Russia has produced the world's first batch - passed away while on Corona duty. 17,000 doses - of COVID-19 vaccines for Their families will be given an honorarium of animals. Rs 50 lakhs by the government. Russia registered Carnivac-Cov in March Corona vaccination campaign cannot be 2021 after tests showed it generated started from 1 May'21 due to non-receipt of antibodies against COVID-19 in dogs, cats, vaccines from the companies. foxes, and mink. The World Health Organization has voiced Journalist Rohit Sardana passes away concern over the risk of transmission of the virus between humans and animals. Senior Indian TV journalist Rohit Sardana passed away in April 2021, days after testing Insurers to settle cashless insurance claims positive for COVID-19. He had hosted 'Taal Thok Ke', a popular The Insurance Regulatory and Development debate programme that discusses Authority of India (IRDAI) has directed contemporary issues in India on Zee News. insurers to approve Covid-related cashless Sardana left Zee News to join Aaj Tak in 2017 claims within 60 minutes of receiving and, since then, he was hosting the debate appropriate documents from the claimant. show 'Dangal.' IRDAI announced the new rules after Delhi High Court directed it to inform insurers to Navy deputes naval medical team at Ahmedabad hasten the process of cashless claims so that hospital beds can be freed quickly for new A 57 member naval medical team consisting patients. of four doctors, seven nurses, 26 paramedics and 20 supporting staff has been deputed to Punjab crosses a mark in wheat procurement Ahmedabad. The team will be deployed at the PM Cares Punjab has successfully crossed the 100 COVID Hospital, a special hospital set up to Lakh MT mark in wheat procurement despite manage the COVID crisis. several challenges especially the ongoing second wave amid the COVID pandemic. It has been deployed for a period of two months starting 29 April 2021 and the Nearly 77 per cent of total procurement duration would be extended if required. operations had already been accomplished within 19 days after the commencement of Upto Rs 15,000 cr to be provided to states wheat procurement from April 10, 2021. 17 Lakh MT had been procured during the The Finance Ministry has decided to provide ongoing Rabi marketing season. an additional amount of up to Rs15,000 cr to states as an interest-free 50-year loan for MP govt launches Corona Warriors Scheme spending on capital projects. This will be done under the Scheme of In Madhya Pradesh, the state government Financial Assistance to States for Capital has launched the Corona Warriors Scheme. Expenditure for the financial year 2021-22. 1 | P a g e Under the scheme, financial assistance is Petroleum and Explosives Safety provided to the state govts in the form of Organisation (PESO). interest-free loans. O2 module will be included in the Covid Jagratha portal. Kerala reduces RT-PCR test rate in pvt labs Ex-Attorney General Soli Sorabjee passes away The Kerala government has slashed the price of RT-PCR tests to ₹500 from ₹1,700 at all Veteran lawyer and former Attorney General private laboratories in the state. Soli Sorabjee passed away in April 2021 after The new RT-PCR test rates are inclusive of contracting the coronavirus disease (Covid- swab charges, PPE kits, and test kits. 19). Earlier, the Kerala government had slashed Sorabjee, a Padma Vibhushan recipient, the price of the RT-PCR test from ₹2,000 to began his legal practice in 1953 in Bombay ₹1,500 on January 1, 2021. High Court and he was designated senior However, it later revised to ₹1,700. counsel of the Supreme Court in 1971. He became the Attorney General of India first IBM acquires software provider Turbonomic from 1989-90 and then from 1998-2004. IBM has agreed to acquire Turbonomic, a SoFi offers crypto for credit card rewards provider of software that helps companies monitor the performance of their business SoFi introduced a credit card feature on 28 applications. April 2021 that allows customers to redeem The deal would be IBM's largest since it their rewards points in bitcoin or ether through acquired Red Hat for $34 billion in 2019. the digital banking app’s investing platform. It values Turbonomic at between $1.5 bn and The SoFi credit card comes with a 2% $2 billion. unlimited cash-back incentive that customers Turbonomic provides companies with can now redeem for cryptocurrency credited software to boost the real-time performance directly to their SoFi Crypto account. and compliance of their applications. Poland to phase out coal production by 2049 Samsung overtakes Apple in smartphone shipment Poland govt and unions signed an MoU with Samsung Electronics Co Ltd reclaimed its the coal mining industry on 28 Apr'21, to crown as the world's biggest smartphone phase out coal production by 2049. maker from Apple in the first quarter, This marks the 1st time that the powerful coal cornering a fifth of overall global shipments. mining sector has agreed to reduce its China's Xiaomi Corp rounded out the top presence. three positions with its best quarterly With this pledge, Poland can meet EU climate performance ever as shipments surged 62% goals by 2050. to 49 million phones and its market share rose The country depends on coal for around 70% to 14%, according to market research firm of its energy needs, although it is planning to Canalys. reduce this to 11% by 2040. Kerala to set up dedicated 'oxygen war rooms' Allahabad HC Judge passes away The Kerala government has decided to set up Justice Virendra Kumar Srivastava of the dedicate oxygen war rooms at the district and Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court state levels to meet the increasing demands. passed away on 28 April 2021 due to Covid The war rooms will function with related complications. representatives of the police, health, Justice Srivastava was sitting at the Lucknow transportation, disaster management, and Bench of the Allahabad High Court. 2 | P a g e The Allahabad High Court and its Lucknow TDI is a chemical used primarily for flexible bench had remained closed on 29 April 2021 foam applications. to mourn the death of Justice Srivastava. ICMR approves dry swab RT-PCR method Pratap Bose quits Tata Motors The simple and fast method of dry swab- Tata Motors appointed Martin Uhlarik as the direct RT-PCR has been approved by the new Global Design Head of the Indian car Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR). manufacturer on 29 April 2021. The dry swab-direct RT-PCR test is The announcement came after its outgoing developed by CSIR's constituent lab Centre Global Design Chief Pratap Bose decided to for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), step down. Hyderabad, for scaling up the coronavirus Martin Uhlarik had joined Tata Motors back in detection. 2016 as the Head of Design in the United The method is lesser in cost and quick turn- Kingdom. around time. Chairman of UP IAS Association passes away RBI to conduct special OMOs of ₹10,000 crore Senior IAS officer and Chairman of the Uttar The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has Pradesh IAS Association, Deepak Trivedi announced special Open Market Operations passed away on 29 April 2021, due to Covid (OMO). related complication. Under this, the central bank will conduct Trivedi was posted as the Chairman of the simultaneous purchase and sale of the Board of Revenue and had been elected as government of India securities (G-sec). President of the UP IAS Association in March It will be conducted for an aggregate amount 2020. of ₹10,000 crores each on 6 May 2021. Trivedi was to retire on April 30, 2021. The result of the auctions will be announced on the same day. JSW steel to supply 1,000 tons of LMO EU clinches Covid vaccine deal with Pfizer JSW Steel will commence supplies of 1,000 tonnes per day of Liquid Medical Oxygen The European Union has concluded (LMO) from 30 April 2021. negotiations with Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE The total supplies of LMO by JSW Steel to deliver a massive supply of Covid vaccines during April 2021 is expected to be more than to the bloc. 20,000 tons from all its plants. It is expected to cover 1.8 billion additional JSW Steel is supplying LMO from its three Covid doses through 2023. manufacturing facilities in Karnataka, The EU expects to receive almost 29 million Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu to various vaccines in the week ending May 3, 2021, states across India. which will represent a total of 188 million doses delivered to the bloc. Anti-dumping duty on chemical from 4 regions 150 AgVa ICU ventilators for Manipur India has imposed anti-dumping duty on imports of a chemical used in foam making The Union Ministry of Health and Family from 4 regions. Welfare has provided 150 AgVa ICU The duty was imposed on dumping of ventilators to Manipur for use in tackling the Toluene Di-Isocyanate from the EU, Saudi COVID-19 pandemic. Arabia, Chinese Taipei and the UAE. The medical equipment arrived in Imphal on The duty was imposed on recommendation 29 April 2021. of Commerce Ministry’s investigation arm The ventilators were provided under Prime Directorate General of Trade Remedies. Minister's Citizen Assistance and Relief in 3 | P a g e Emergency Situations Fund (PM-CARES through the use of technology under the Fund) Digital India programme.