3 december 2021 current affairs

1. CURRENT AFFAIRS
3 DECEMBER 2021
Dr. A. PRABAHARAN
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2. Cyclone Jawad update: Cyclonic Storm Jawad
likely to make landfall in Puri on December
4th morning
 The deep depression in the Bay of Bengal has
intensified into cyclonic storm 'Jawad', informed India
Meteorological Department on December 3, 2021.
 The cyclonic storm is expected to move
northwestwards and reach north Andhra Pradesh–
south Odisha coasts by December 4th morning and
then recurve north-northeastwards and move along
Odisha coast reaching near Puri around December 5th
noon, as per IMD forecast.
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3. Gita Gopinath promoted to be IMF’s First
Deputy Managing Director
 The Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Gita
Gopinath will take up a new role as the First Deputy Managing
Director of IMF. Gopinath will be the second-rank official at IMF.
 She will replace the First Deputy Managing Director Geoffrey
Okamoto who plans on leaving the IMF early in 2022.
 Gita Gopinath served as the Chief Economist of IMF for 3 years. She
was announced to return to her academic position at Harvard
University next year in January but decided to stay.
 IMF’s Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva acknowledged that
Gita Gopinath’s contribution to IMF has been exceptional,
particularly her intellectual leadership in helping the global economy
as well as the fund to work on the worst economic crisis.
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4. Germany to ban unvaccinated from public
places; Delhi proposes similar plan
 Germany will soon ban non-vaccinated people from large parts of public life. This
was stated by outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel on December 2, 2021
after a meeting with the country's federal and state leaders.
 While speaking to reporters, Merkel said that the situation in the country is
serious and called the measures an “act of national solidarity. She said that these
stringent steps are necessary to address concerns that hospitals could become
overloaded with people suffering from COVID infection, which is likely to be more
serious among people who have not been vaccinated.
 The German Chancellor informed that the parliament will soon consider a general
vaccine mandate in an effort to curb coronavirus infections amid the detection of
a potentially more contagious Omicron COVID variant.
 Germany has again reported a record rise in COVID cases with 70,000 newly
confirmed cases in 24 hours.
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5. Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill, 2021
passed in Lok Sabha
 Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill, 2021 was passed
by Lok Sabha on December 1, 2021, that aims at
establishing a national board and the state boards for the
regulation and supervision of ART (Assisted Reproductive
Technology) clinics and ART banks for the ethical and safe
practice of ART services.
 ART Bill, 2021 was passed with a voice vote after a reply
to the debate by the Union Health Minister Mansukh
Mandaviya who explained that the bill has been brought
with a need to regulate the services of assisted
reproductive technology to protect the affected women
and children from exploitation.
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