Current context: ICMR has informed that India has become the fifth country in the world to successfully isolate the COVID-19 virus strain.
a. 2nd
b. 3rd
c. 4th
d. 5th
- The other four countries include Japan, Thailand, United States of America and China.
- It means that the Indian scientists have been able to obtain a pure sample of the virus that has been contaminated outside the human body.
- 11 strains of the Covid-19 have been isolated by the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune.
- Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the apex health research body in the country, has expanded its network of labs equipped to test COVID-19 to 65 from 51.
- According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there is no vaccine to cure Covid-19.
- Anti-HIV drugs lopinavir and ritonavir, are being tried on the affected patients as the suitable second option for rapid implementation in clinical trials.
- ICMR Headquarters: New Delhi
- Director-General: Dr Balram Bhargava
Question:
Q.1 Recently, India has become the ________ country in the world to successfully isolate the COVID-19 virus strain?a. 2nd
b. 3rd
c. 4th
d. 5th
