Assam Current Affairs and GK Quiz – Set 260: April 28-30, 2020

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Assam Current Affairs & GK Quiz Set 260 : April 28 – 30, 2020

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Q1. Which International organisation has declared the COVID-19 outbreak as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January and a pandemic on 11 March 2020?

  1. United Nations
  2. World Health Organization
  3. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
  4. United Nations Environment Programme
B. World Health Organisation

 

Q2. The Corona virus is primarily spread between people during close contact, mostly via?

  1. small droplets produced by coughing, sneezing and talking
  2. air from respiration
  3. skin to skin touches
  4. lipid and Blood transfer
A.small droplets produced by coughing, sneezing and talking

 

Q3. The World Health Organization (WHO), the specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health, has headquartered in 

  1. Geneva, Switzerland
  2. New York, USA
  3. London, USA
  4. VernNew York, USA
A. Geneva,Switzerland

 

Q4. Which strain of coronavirus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a respiratory illness?

  1. SARS-CoV-2
  2. SARS-CoV-1
  3. SARS-CoV-2019
  4. ACE-2
A. SARS-CoV-2

 

Q5. Basic Reproduction Number (R0), the basic reproduction number of an infection can be thought of as the expected number of cases directly generated by one case in a population where all individuals are susceptible to infection, for COVID-19 is 5.7. Which is the following disease is having maximum R0?

  1. Measles
  2. Polio
  3. Covid-19
  4. Influenza
A. Measles

 

Q6. The index case of Covid-19 in India was reported from

  1. Delhi
  2. Mumbai
  3. Bangalore
  4. Thrissur
D. Thrissur

 

Q7. The Covid-19 outbreak has been declared an epidemic and provisions of the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 have been invoked in India. The Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 was first enacted to tackle

  1. Cholera spread in Gujarat
  2. Swine flu spread in North India
  3. Malaria spread in West Bengal
  4. Bubonic plague in Mumbai
D. Bubonic plague in Mumbai

 

Q8. Which of the following drugs is a medication primarily used to prevent and treat malaria, is now being used in treatment of COVID-19 cases, on emergency basis?

  1. Antihistamines
  2. Temozolomide
  3. Hydroxychloroquine
  4. Cyclophosphamide
C. Hydroxychloroquine

 

Q9. The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak was identified in December 2019 in of the following place?

  1. Lombardy, Italy
  2. Wuhan, China
  3. Hong Kong
  4. New York, USA
B. Wuhan,China

 

Q10. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a

  1. Double-stranded RNA viruses
  2. Negative strand RNA viruses
  3. Positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus
  4. Satellite viruses
C. Positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus

 

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