India Third in Journalists Deaths Due to COVID-19 Globally, Finds Media Rights Body
India is only behind Brazil and Peru. The Press Emblem Campaign has noted that several mainstream media houses have not reported the actual number of casualties.
Representative image of journalists working with face masks on. Photo: PTI
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New Delhi: India is among the top three countries in the world when it comes to deaths of journalists due to COVID-19, a Geneva-based media rights body has found.
As many as three journalists have been dying in India every day out of COVID-19 complications, the Press Emblem Campaign has reported.Â
As journalists get infected with Covid-19, newsrooms struggle to continue operations
As journalists visit hospitals and crematoriums to get the much-needed information, they risk contracting the illness and as they recover, newsrooms have a tough task running their news broadcast Mumbai, April 28, 2021
As the country braves through the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic and lakhs get infected by the virus with hundreds even succumbing to it, journalists are continuing to bring much-needed information from ground zero for their viewers and readers. While this often means putting their own safety aside and exposing themselves to the virus, the journalists pull on a double mask, rub sanitisers on their hands regularly and keep at it day in and day out.Â
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âWarm, kind, wise and brilliantâ: Guardian writers remember Kakoli Bhattacharya
Our Delhi correspondents pay tribute to the Indian journalist and Guardian news assistant, who has died of Covid
Kakoli Bhattacharya, who has died aged 51, had worked as an assistant, translator and fixer for the Guardian since 2009.
Kakoli Bhattacharya, who has died aged 51, had worked as an assistant, translator and fixer for the Guardian since 2009.
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Tue 27 Apr 2021 11.04 EDT
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Every Guardian south Asia correspondent over the past decade can remember the first time they met Kakoli Bhattacharya. A smart, brilliant and tenacious journalist, Kakoli joined the Guardian in Delhi in 2009 as an assistant, translator and fixer â but the role she would play in the lives of all the correspondents who worked with her far outstripped her official duties.
A devastating COVID surge takes a fresh toll on Indian journalism
More than a year into the global pandemic, the coronavirus has exploded across India. The spread has been fueled, in part, by possible new variants and the recent holding of mass public events, including political rallies and religious celebrations; vaccination rates, meanwhile, remain low, even as Indian manufacturers have busily churned out doses for residents of other countries. Hospitals have run low on beds and oxygen, and crematoria are overflowing; steel pipes at one such facility in Surat, in Gujarat state, melted from overuse. India has recorded more than three-hundred-thousand new daily cases for six days in a row smashing the daily record for a single country several times over and that figure is likely a substantial undercount. So, too, is the official daily death count, which yesterday came close to three thousand a function of factors ranging from familial shame to political pressure. “It’s a complet