January 2023

Daily Top-10 Current Affairs MCQs / News (Jan 05 2023) for CSS

January 5, 2023
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6. China stats `under-represent` true impact of Covid outbreak, says WHO

• The World Health Organisation criticised on January 4, 2023 China`s `very narrow` definition of Covid deaths, warning that official statistics were not showing the true impact of the outbreak.
• `We still do not have complete data,` the WHO`s emergencies director Michael Ryan told reporters.
• `We believe that the current numbers being published from China under-represent the true impact of the disease in terms of hospital admissions, in terms of ICU admissions, and particularly in terms of deaths.` His comments came amid growing concern over China`s steep rise in Covid infections since Beijing last month abruptly lifted years of hardline restrictions, with hospitals and crematoriums quickly overwhelmed

7. Car bombs kill 35, burn houses in Somalia

• Two car bombs detonated by Al Shabaab militants in central Somalia on January 4, 2023 killed at least 35 people, including eight members of a single family, and wounded 40 more, a senior police officer said.
• The attack in the town of Mahas was the latest in a series by Al Qaeda affiliate Al Shabaab since government forces and allied clan militias last year began pushing the insurgents out of territory they had long held.
• `Most of the dead are civilians.
• They are women and children, Hassan-Kafi Mohamed Ibrahim, deputy police commissioner of Hirshabelle State, said

8. US carries out first execution of transgender person

• A transgender woman convicted of murder was put to death late on Tuesday in the first such execution in the United States, officials said.
• Amber McLaughlin, 49, was pronounced dead shortly before 7 pm local time at the Diagnostic and Correctional Center in the town of Bonne Terre, Missouri, according to a statement from the state prison department.
• Local news station Fox2now reported that McLaughlin die d by lethal injection.
• McLaughlin was the first transgender person of either sex to be executed in the country, and also the first person to die by capital punishment this year in America

9. Christian graves vandalised in Jerusalem

• A Jerusalem bishop said on January 4, 2023 he was `dismayed` by the desecration of dozens of Christian graves on the edge of the Old City, as police probed the vandalism.
• Stone graves lay in pieces with crosses toppled at the Protestant cemetery on Mount Zion, where Christians believe Jesus`s Last Supper took place.
• `We discovered that more than 30 tombstones and crosses were smashed to pieces,` Hosam Naoum, an Anglican bishop, told journalists at the cemetery

10. Last surviving Apollo 7 astronaut dies at 90

• Former astronaut Walter Cunningham, who flew to space aboard Apollo 7 in 1968, part of the first crewed Apollo mission paving the way for 12 others to land on the moon in subsequent years, died on Tuesday at age 90, Nasa said.
• Cunningham joined crewmates Walter Schirra and Donn Eisele for the successful 11-day mission, which was conducted in low-Earth orbit as the first human test flight of the new Apollo spacecraft that would later venture to the moon.
• Apollo 7 marked the resumption of Nasa`s lunar space flight programme 21 months after the fire that killed all three members of the Apollo 1 crew during a ground-based launch rehearsal in late January 1967

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