Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan held a meeting with senior officials of ICMR, Department of Science & Technology, Bio-technology and CSIR to review the sampling and testing strategy for COVID-19. <br />'' <br />'' In the meeting held yesterday, there was an elaborate discussion on the issues like procurement of reagents, website integration, data management and analysis, dashboards, and research studies. <br />'' <br />'' The Minister lauded the states for active surveillance, effective contact tracing and their preparedness for containment and management of COVID-19.<br />'' <br />'' Dr. Harsh Vardhan appreciated the public health surveillance and response, technical guidance and laboratory support being given by ICMR. <br />'' <br />'' He directed that all efforts should be made to procure requisite testing kits and reagents urgently and supply them to the laboratories across the country. <br />''