As essential workers, including healthcare staff, civic staff, and police officers are battling the coronavirus pandemic on the frontline, messages of tributes, gratitude, and salute are pouring for them from people across the globe.  A video featuring an officer of the India Army lauding the efforts of the police officers amid the lockdown by distributing sweets among cops and Home Guard personnel, has become viral

The widely circulated video that was first posted by Bikaner Police couple of days ago, shows the officer addressing the cops and a Home Guard personnel where he is heard saying, "We are all proud of the Indian police for their good work." He then hands a box of sweets to them as a gift and goes to praise their efforts taken to contain the pandemic. "While everyone is worried in these times of COVID, yours is the only force working calmly,” the army officer said.