Washington: US Vice President Kamala Harris has said that her first job was to clean pipettes in her mother’s laboratory, as she visited the National Health Institute headquarters for the second dose of her COVID-19 vaccine. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris from Chennai, was a breast cancer researcher who died of cancer in 2009. She was in the biochemical endocrinology section," Harris said on Tuesday during her visit to the National Health Institute (NIH) headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland. Also Read | How India has become an unequal republicRecalling her visit to her mother’s laboratory, the US Vice President said: “She was a peer reviewer. Harris, also America’s first Black and South Asian vice president, took over the office from Mike Pence on January 20.

Source: Mint January 27, 2021 06:37 UTC