NEW DELHI - Delhi authorities have stopped putting notices outside the homes of people infected with coronavirus because this has amplified the social stigma associated with the disease and in turn caused others to hide their illness, officials said on Monday.
But more than six months into the pandemic people were fully aware of COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the virus, and there was less need to publicize the cases, city officials said. Instead it was important to instill confidence in people to come forward and test themselves. India's total coronavirus cases stood at 7.12 million on Monday, health ministry data showed, behind only the United States which is approaching the 8 million mark.
Some residents in Delhi said that such was the fear over the disease that people tried to distance themselves from patients even after they had recovered.