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- Locusts normally arrive during July-October, but have already been spotted in Rajasthan.
- Locusts are a group of short-horned grasshoppers.
- The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has approved US$ 500 million for ‘Covid-19 Emergency Response and Health Systems Preparedness Project’ initiated by India.
- It will be implemented by the National Health Mission (NHM), the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
- The Ministry of Defence signed a contract with the Tata Power to modernize infrastructure of 37 airfields of Indian Air Force.
- The Institute of Advanced Virology in Thiruvananthapuram of Kerala has gained membership to the prestigious Global Virus Network (GVN) - an international association of medical virologists.
- This is the first institution in the country to get the prestigious GVN membership.
- Jharkhand banned manufacture, sale and storage of pan masala, containing Magnesium Carbonate, for one year under the Food Safety and Standards Regulation 2011.
- Jharkhand becomes the third state after Maharashtra and Bihar to impose a ban on pan masala.
- Tamil Nadu government has constituted a high-level committee headed by former Reserve Bank of India governor C Rangarajan.
- It will assess the overall immediate impact of Covid-19 pandemic on different sectors of state economy.
- The USA President Donald Trump has said the coronavirus outbreak has hit the US harder than the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor during World War II or the 9/11 terror attacks, pointing the finger at China.
- The MahaKavach App, a real-time digital contact tracing mobile application, was launched by the Government of Maharashtra.
- It enables citizens to contribute and assist the health authorities in contact tracing, geo-fencing and tracking of quarantined COVID-19 patients.
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