{"id":113678,"date":"2021-05-27T11:58:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T11:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=113678"},"modified":"2021-05-27T11:58:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T11:58:35","slug":"who-biohub-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/who-biohub-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO BioHub Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: At which of the following place WHO has announced to setup its BioHub Facility?<\/strong><br>a) New York<br>b) Geneva<br>c) Spiez<br>d) Wuhan<br><strong>Answer: (c)<br>Related Facts:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On 24 May 2021; the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Swiss Confederation t signed a Memorandum of Understanding to launch the first WHO BioHub Facility.<\/li><li>It will be as part of the WHO BioHub System, which was announced in November 2020.<\/li><li>This facility will enhance the rapid sharing of viruses and other pathogens between laboratories and partners globally.<\/li><li>This first WHO BioHub facility will be based in Spiez, Switzerland, and will serve as a centre for the safe receipt, sequencing, storage and preparation of biological materials.<\/li><li>The biological materials kept here for distribution to other laboratories, in order to inform risk assessments, and sustain global preparedness against these pathogens.<\/li><li>Close international collaboration to ensure the timely sharing of epidemiological and clinical data as well as biological materials is of utmost importance.<\/li><li>Switzerland supports the WHO BioHub initiative in its initial phase by providing the necessary infrastructure of a Swiss bio-safety laboratory in Spiez.<\/li><li>Swiss Federal Councillor Alain Berset said that with this, we hope to contribute to the establishment of an international exchange system for SARS-CoV-2 and other emerging pathogens.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:-<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/24-05-2021-who-and-switzerland-launch-global-biohub-for-pathogen-storage-sharing-and-analysis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/24-05-2021-who-and-switzerland-launch-global-biohub-for-pathogen-storage-sharing-and-analysis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: At which of the following place WHO has announced to setup its BioHub Facility?a) New Yorkb) Genevac) Spiezd) WuhanAnswer: (c)Related Facts:- On 24 May 2021; the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Swiss Confederation t signed a Memorandum of Understanding to launch the first WHO BioHub Facility. It will be as part of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":113679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[2529],"class_list":["post-113678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne","tag-international-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113680,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113678\/revisions\/113680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}