World Current Affairs MCQs January 2022

1708 runs in 15 matches with six centuries. The magnitude of Joe Root’s sublime form in the year 2021 can be summed up by one simple stat – he has become only the third player in history to aggregate over 1700 runs in Test cricket in a calendar year. Only Mohammad Yousuf and Sir Vivian Richards stand ahead of him.

A controversial app created on a repository hosting service has triggered outrage on social media after photos of Muslim women were uploaded on it without their consent. The app named ‘Bulli Bai’ was allegedly found auctioning pictures of Muslim women, months after some unidentified persons created a similar app ‘Sulli deals’ where photographs of hundreds of Muslim women, sourced from their social media accounts, were uploaded and auctioned. The app was taken down following outrage on social media.

Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has hailed a landslide victory in the Caribbean nation’s first general election since it became a republic in December 2021, as preliminary results showed her governing party won every seat in the national legislature. Mottley in December called the snap election for January 19, 2022 saying it would help promote unity as the island nation battled the coronavirus pandemic, which has damaged its tourist economy.

When the world was celebrating the New Year during the weekend, Israel documented its first florona case in an unvaccinated pregnant woman who went into labour at Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva on January 2. Israeli health officials say other patients may have also contracted the double infection. Florona is a simultaneous double infection caused by the coronavirus and the influenza virus. Florona is not a new coronavirus variant. While people don’t need to panic, the double infection can be dangerous for unvaccinated people with poor immunity as compared to a vaccinated individual who has taken both his/her Covid and flu shots. The combination of flu with the Delta virus or Omicron virus could be dangerous.

The 2021 CPI, publish in January 2022, currently ranks 180 countries “on a scale from 100 (very clean) to 0 (highly corrupt)” based on the situation between May 2020 and May 2021. the most perceived corrupt countries in the world are Syria, Somalia, and South Sudan, scoring 13 and 11 out of 100 respectively in 2021

A new strain of coronavirus that combines Delta and Omicron has been detecte in Cyprus. The new strain has been named ‘Deltacron’ due to the identification of Omicron-like genetic signatures within the Delta genomes. There has been a constant spike in the cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 across the globe. A detail study is yet to be done on how the new Deltacron variant will impact the world.