Coronavirus Specific Questions Flashcards
Name the vaccine that is jointly developed by the German company BioNTech and US pharma giant Pfizer for COVID-19?
BNT162
is jointly developed by the German company BioNTech and US pharma giant Pfizer. It is a group of four potential vaccines based on the messenger RNA or mRNA, concept. On the other hand, PICOVACC is an inactivated vaccine developed by the private biopharma company Sinovac. These vaccines are in clinical trial phases.
Name a clinical trial in which blood is transfused from recovered COVID-19 patients to a coronavirus patient who is in critical condition?
Plasma Therapy
or Convalescent Plasma Therapy is a clinical trial in which blood is transfused from recovered COVID-19 patients to a coronavirus patient who is in critical condition.
What is Coronavirus?
Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses and belong to the Nidovirus family or Nidovirales order, which includes Coronaviridae, Arteriviridae, and Roniviridae families.
Which of the following diseases are related to coronavirus? A. MERS B. SARS C. Both A and B D. Neither A nor B
Coronavirus may cause illness from the common cold to more other serious diseases like Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV).
From where coronavirus got its name?
Due to their crown-like projections on the surfaces coronaviruses got their name. The virus resembles a crown when viewed under an electron microscope. “Corona” in Latin means “halo” or “crown”.
SARS virus was spread in 2002 in which country?
Shunde, Guangdong, China
Severe Acute respiratory Syndrome
Which section of The Epidemci Diseases Act empowers state govt/UTs to take special measures and formulate regulations to contain any outbreak?
Section 2
MERS was first spread over in which country?
Saudi Arabia
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome
Coronaviruses were first identified in which decade?
1960s by Tyrell and Bynoe
named it Virus B814
On which date World Health Organization (WHO) as a pandemic?
11 March 2020
India’s first corona virus death occurred in which state?
Karnatka
The first death due corona virus in USA was reported in which state?
Washington DC
How many types of Coronavirus are there?
7
SARS, MERS & CORONA
HCoV-NL63,
HCoV-OC43,
HCOV-HKU1
What is Infodemic ?
An excessive amount of information concerning a problem such that the solution is made more difficult.
On which date is the public curfew “Janta Curfew” imposed due to Corona Virus?
22 March 2020
