CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The Longitude Prize on AMR is a £10m prize fund, with an £8m pay-out, that will reward a team of innovators who develop a point–of–care diagnostic test that will conserve antibiotics for future generations. The test must be accurate, rapid, affordable and easy to use anywhere in the world.

Detailed explanation-2: -The longitude rewards were the system of inducement prizes offered by the British government for a simple and practical method for the precise determination of a ship’s longitude at sea. The rewards, established through an Act of Parliament (the Longitude Act) in 1714, were administered by the Board of Longitude.

Detailed explanation-3: -What is the Longitude Prize on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) ? The Longitude Prize is looking for a team of researchers to invent an affordable, accurate, fast and easy-to-use test for bacterial infections that will allow health professionals worldwide to administer the right antibiotics at the right time.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Longitude Act was an act of parliament that offered money in return for the solution to the problem of finding a ship’s precise longitude at sea.