Indian reporters find new ways to expose ‘vaccine inequity’ and COVID-19 data
ICIJ partners have had to innovate and adapt how they uncover critical information on the crisis, while calling for more government transparency. May 11, 2021 Journalist Barkha Dutt reports from Guru Teg Bahadur hospital in New Delhi on June 12, 2020, after authorities eased restrictions imposed as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Dutt has driven the length and breadth of India, 23,000 kilometers over more than 100 days, to tell how the country’s poor have suffered in the pandemic.
In early 2021, reporters at The Indian Express had just begun to go back to the newsroom for occasional small meetings after nearly a year of working remotely, when news about India’s “double mutant,” a coronavirus variant, started to spread.
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