Daily Current Affairs Quiz 8 June 2022

c) China

China successfully launched its third manned mission to its new space station, sending three astronauts to continue construction work for six months.
China’s Manned Space Agency (CMSA) announced that the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft was launched by a Long March 2F rocket. The team will live and work at the Tiangong Space Station’s Tianhe core module for six months.

c) United States

Carbon dioxide measured at the Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory, Hawaii, run by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), peaked for 2022 at 421 parts per million in May.

c) 180

India has been ranked at the bottom of the 2022 Environmental Performance Index. India was ranked at 180 with a score of 18.9, which is the lowest among 180 countries in the index that evaluated the environmental performance of these countries. India’s performance has gone down by 0.6 scores in the last decade, while our neighbours have done better including Pakistan, which is ranked at 176 and Bangladesh that is at 177.
Denmark is ranked at the top of the Environmental Performance Index 2022 with a total score of 77.9, followed by United Kingdom at second rank with a score of 77.7 and Finland at third rank with a score of 76.5. Malta is ranked fourth with a score of 75.2 and Sweden is ranked fifth with a score of 72.7

c) Undetectable vessels

“Dark ships” are vessels with their Automatic Identification System (AIS) – a transponder system – switched off so as not to be detectable.

The Quad grouping, comprising India, Australia, Japan and the U.S., announced at the Tokyo summit last month an ambitious Indo-Pacific Maritime Domain Awareness (IPMDA) initiative to track “dark shipping”.

a) 1 only

Corbevax is India’s first approved heterologous COVID booster (when the third dose is different from earlier doses). The vaccine can be administered to adults six months after the administration of second dose of Covaxin or Covishield for restricted use in emergency situations. Hence, statement 1 is correct.
Corbevax is a protein subunit COVID-19 vaccine developed by Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas and Dynavax technologies based in Emeryville, California. It is licensed to Indian biopharmaceutical firm Biological E. Limited (BioE) for development and production. Hence, statement 2 is incorrect.