<span style="color: #222222;">To meet the increased requirement of sample collection centres in the Udhampur district, District Industry Centre has developed mobile COVID sample collection Units to be used by the health workers while collection of samples. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">AIR Correspondent reports that with the Special Shramik train daily bringing an influx of stranded people of J&K back, at Udhampur Railway Station, the district was facing with the challenge of rapidly ramping up sample collection process for testing all the incoming passengers for Covid-19 before they are sent back to their homes.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The DIC has developed four Government vehicles into Mobile COVID Sampling Units with slight modification without any damage so that these vehicles can easily be restored to original setting for official use. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The person giving the sample stands along side of the vehicle and a nasal or oral swab is taken by the health care workers from inside the vehicle. The vehicle is so modified that there is no physical contact between the patient and the health worker. <br />''<br />''Not only this, the DIC has also developed fabricated kiosk as sample taking units in a manner that the health worker does not come in contact with the suspected patients whose sample is to be taken. The shielding screen of the kiosk restricts transmission of aerosols/droplets of a COVID-19 infected person to the health care worker. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Chief medical Officer Udhampur has said that these mobile sample collection units helped a lot in sample collection as four mobile teams are working round the clock and samples are collected from different places and from remote areas of the district.</span><br />'' <b><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></b><br />''