Tag: Harsh Vardhan

FS in Bangladesh ahead of President’s visit

During his visit, Shringla will call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Foreign Minister A K Abdul Momen apart from holding delegation-level talks with his counterpart. He will also meet Bangladesh Minister for Road Transport and Bridges and Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader.

December 7, 2021

54% say Harsh Vardhan made a scapegoat

President Ram Nath Kovind has accepted their resignations, a statement from Rashtrapati Bhavan said.

July 9, 2021

Harsh Vardhan, Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank among big names who resigned ahead of reshuffle

Meanwhile, Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment Thawar Chand Gehlot has been appointed as Governor of Karnataka.

July 7, 2021

Suvendu writes to Union Health minister Vardhan for probe

The fake vaccine drive mastermind Debanjan Deb was earlier arrested for allegedly posing as an IAS officer and organising a Covid-19 vaccination camp in the city's Kasba area, where actor and Trinamul Congress MP Mimi Chakraborty had also got her inoculation.

June 27, 2021

Harsh Vardhan assures Mamata of all help to fight Covid

He said that the Indian Council of Medical Research has facilitated setting up 74 Covid testing labs in the government sector and 54 labs in the private sector.

May 8, 2021

Centre should not politicize fight against pandemic: Satyendar Jain

"I think that we should fight against coronavirus instead of politicising the issue. If anyone has any suggestion, they should be welcomed in positive spirits by the centre," said Jain.

April 9, 2021

‘Deplorable attempts by some state governments to distract attention from their failures and spread panic among people’: Harsh Vardhan

Most concerning of all are the statements being made by a section of political leaders asking to open up vaccination to everyone above the age of 18 or to drastically lower the minimum age criteria for vaccination eligibility.

April 7, 2021

States tighten Covid-19 curbs

India records biggest jump in cases in 4 months with close to 40,000 new cases added in span of 24 hours.

March 20, 2021

Get vaccinated 24×7 at your convenience: Harsh Vardhan

The minister took to microblogging website Twitter and said: "The government has ended the time constraint to increase the speed of vaccination. Citizens of the country can now get vaccinated 24x7 at their convenience."

March 3, 2021

Harsh Vardhan lays foundation of Nagaland’s 2nd medical college

Phom said that most of the private healthcare is concentrated in Kohima and Dimapur and the rest are dependent on public healthcare.

February 27, 2021

Harsh Vardhan distributes blankets, masks and soaps among poor staying at AIIMS

RK Jain, Secretary-General, Red Cross Society, Prof R Guleria, Director, AIIMS and other senior officials of AIIMS were also present on the occasion.

February 9, 2021

Harsh Vardhan unveils IEC campaign to address ‘vaccine hesitancy and misinformation’

The world’s largest immunisation exercise against COVID-19 was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 16th January 2021.

January 21, 2021

COVID-19 vaccine dry run held across 285 session sites spread across 125 districts of India

Ahead of the actual vaccination drive, the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare today conducted a nationwide mock drill at 285 session sites to test the end-to-end planned operations and the mechanism that has been set up to ensure smooth conduct of the COVID19 vaccination that is expected to begin soon.

January 2, 2021

Harsh Vardhan chairs meeting to review preparedness at COVID 19 vaccination sites for trial run in Delhi

Requesting every official to abide by the detailed checklist and SOP for vaccination that has been prepared by the Union Health Ministry and shared with the States/UTs to guide them in the dry run, Dr Harsh Vardhan pressed the need for perfect calibration between the administrative and medical officers to make the event a primer that would later enable the mass rollout of vaccines.

January 2, 2021

‘Free coronavirus vaccines will be given in first phase to 3 crore people’: Health Minister

The government will give priority to 1 crore healthcare workers and 2 crore frontline workers when India begins the rollout of the Covid vaccine.

January 2, 2021

‘Government is fully alert, there’s no need to panic’: Health Minister on spread of UK virus strain

Air India has maintained that no decision has been made yet regarding the ban of flights from the UK.

December 21, 2020

Vaccine: Govt seeks health workers’ list

Health workers will be given the vaccine first, an official said.

October 28, 2020