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.
President Ram Nath Kovind has accepted their resignations, a statement from Rashtrapati Bhavan said.
Meanwhile, Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment Thawar Chand Gehlot has been appointed as Governor of Karnataka.
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.
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.
RK Jain, Secretary-General, Red Cross Society, Prof R Guleria, Director, AIIMS and other senior officials of AIIMS were also present on the occasion.
The world’s largest immunisation exercise against COVID-19 was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 16th January 2021.
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.
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.
The government will give priority to 1 crore healthcare workers and 2 crore frontline workers when India begins the rollout of the Covid vaccine.
