Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba yesterday chaired a high level meeting with Chief Secretaries of various States and Union Territories to take stock of public health response to COVID-19 pandemic during the ongoing season of festivities.<br />'' <br />''AIR correspondent reports that the Cabinet Secretary applauded the efforts of UT Administration to augment the medical infrastructure including isolation beds with oxygen support, ICU beds, ventilators and oxygen production/ supply capacity.<br />'' <br />''J&K Chief Secretary B.V. R. Subrahmanyam informed that to maintain low fatality rate, strategic efforts are in place for timely hospitalization of vulnerable patients especially children, old-age patients with co-morbidity. He said that COVID trajectory is being closely monitored with special focus on spread of infection through travellers, primary and secondary contacts, especially after resumption of religious pilgrimage.<br />'' <br />''<span style="color: #222222;">He further said that J&K is still conducting universal testing of all visitors travelling by air, road and railways. Regarding targeted testing in vulnerable clusters, the UT Administration has recently launched a sweeping strategy, wherein universal testing is carried out to identify patients and the process is repeated regularly to sweep clean the area. </span><br />