Current Affairs - January 2022
As per the new COVID guidelines, COVID-19 patients have to undergo tests for which disease if cough persists for over 2-3 weeks?
The Union Health Ministry in its revised 'Clinical Guidance for Management of Adult COVID-19 Patients' has advised testing for Tuberculosis if cough persists for more than 2-3 weeks and also avoiding the use of the steroid.
The drug regulator has granted Serum Institute of India's Covishield and Bharat Biotech's Covaxin Covid-19 vaccines "conditional market authorisation".
The Government of India has sanctioned and notified the Scheme for the amalgamation of the Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative Bank Ltd. with Unity Small Finance Bank Ltd. (USFBL).
The Central Government has constituted the Ken-Betwa Link Project Authority to implement the first initiative under the national river interlinking policy.