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.
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 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.