Jagannath Bidyadhar Mohapatra a member of Central Board of Direct Taxes has been given the additional charge as the Chairman of CBDT for a period of three months.
The World Health Organisation gave its approval to the Chinese COVID-19 vaccine SINOVAC for emergency use. This is 8th vaccine to receive the Emergency Use Listing from WHO.
The Vietnamese authorities have discovered a very dangerous variant of COVID-19 that has combined mutations first found in India and the UK and is spreading very quickly by air.
The Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Dr. Harsh Vardhan has been awarded with the 'WHO Director-General Special Recognition Award' for his accomplishments in the area of tobacco control.