Cabinet reshuffle: Harsh Vardhan fails to clear test ahead of third wave

India's management of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic drew all-round criticism both within the country and outside.

Around noon on Wednesday, then Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan had sent out a message on his Twitter handle that ‘test, track and treat’ was being effectively implemented while pointing out that more than 1.9 million Covid19 tests had been conducted a day before and a total of over 423 million so far. He had tagged PMO (Prime Minister’s Office) on that tweet. A few hours later, Vardhan, who’s been at the centre of the Covid battle as health minister, retweeted the live oath-taking ceremony for the new ministers. He was out of the Cabinet by then. He did not