The devastating impact of the pandemic on media, deplorable situation in India
by Thakuria Navajyoti
Geneva/Guwahati, 30 April 2021: The Covid-19 pandemic had a devastating impact on the media, the Switzerland-based media rights and safety body Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) lamented last Friday in preparation for World Press Freedom Day on 3 May. The human cost of the pandemic is particularly high where over one thousand journalists have lost their lives due to novel coronavirus aggravated ailments. India recently lost over 50 journalists in 2 weeks (3.5 per day).
Journalists are engaged in a profession that is particularly exposed to the virus, as many have been forced to continue working in contact with the population. Until 29 April 2021, since March 2020, within 14 months, the PEC (www.pressemblem.ch/) has counted more than 1,200 journalists who died from complications related to Covid-19 in 75 countries.
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15 of them died in April. We will release ex gratia to their family members, says govt.
Pritiman Mohapatra, a senior journalist, died of COVID-19 here on Saturday.
Mr. Mohapatra, 48, is survived by his wife and minor daughter. He was working as assistant news editor with the Bhubaneswar edition of the
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.
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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
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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