In the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, Divisional Commissioner Kashmir, Pandurang K Pole chaired a weekly Covid-19 review meeting with all Deputy Commissioners, Health Officers and other concerned officers today.<br />'' <br />''The Divisional Commissioner stressed upon proper monitoring of COVID-19 positive patients who are in home isolation and directed to make all facilities including pulse checking oximeters and medicines available to them.<br />'' <br />''He instructed to ensure prompt response to these patients in home isolation in case of any emergency. Besides as a mandatory norm, all of them have to download the Arogya Setu app on their phones. He said that concerned should make sure that these patients follow the COVID-19 protocol and SOP guidelines religiously.<br />'' <br />''The Divisional Commissioner instructed DCs to ensure that village and block level meetings are being conducted and action taken reports are submitted as per these meetings from all the districts. He emphasized that reporting of antigen rapid tests is being done through authorized persons only.<br />'' <br />''Asking DCs to raise the number of daily antigen testing, the Divisional Commissioner said that some districts faced shortage of antigen testing kits due to quality and packaging issue, however he said kits shall be made available to all districts as per the requirement.<br />'' <br />''The Divisional Commissioner maintained that there has been improvement in the decongestion of tertiary care hospitals as there was only 30 per cent bed occupancy in these hospitals presently.<br />'' <br />''<span style="color: #222222;">Emphasizing on timely denotifying of red zone areas, the Divisional Commissioner stressed on proper monitoring of all red zone areas. The Divisional Commissioner further called upon aggressive contact tracing of contacts and their proper isolation. He also took a detailed review of availability of COVID medicines, oxygen cylinders, beds, daily testing including antigen as well as RTPCR, positivity rate, IEC activities and other related facilities.</span><br />