In the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, Health Department has been tirelessly reaching out to the people of Jammu & Kashmir to mitigate their sufferings due to prevailing lockdown situation.<br />'' <br />''Dr Owais Ahmad, OSD, Health Department Kashmir reviewed the ongoing sampling and testing undertaken in Kashmir Division and discussed at length, various issues with regard to functioning of all three Covid-19 labs of Kashmir including receipt of samples from districts, code of samples and their processing.<br />'' <br />''It was emphasized that a close coordination between the field agencies and the labs need to be maintained so as to expedite the testing process. AIR Correspondent reports, underlining the need for further increase in testing capacity in Kashmir Division, it was appreciated that the laboratories  functioning in Kashmir Valley have been able to increase their testing capacity by twenty times since March this year.<br />''<br />''The technical staff trained for sampling is taking samples both at block levels and village level through testing kiosks and mobile sampling teams.<br />''<br />''Due to these concerted efforts, Jammu and Kashmir has been able to conduct highest number of tests per million in the country.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />''</span><br />