In a novel gesture amidst a spike in the novel coronavirus cases in the State, Himachal Pradesh Urban Development Minister Suresh Bhardwaj on Wednesday wrote to the home quarantined COVID-19 patients, advising them not to panic, while citing his own experience with the contagion.
Bhardwaj, who is Shimla legislator, said that there is a sudden spurt in the COVID-19 cases in the State and around 1,000 people are quarantined at home as of now.
The Minister has dispatched letters to the people battling COVID-19 and isolated at home as well as to the families of those who died of the virus in Shimla district.