COVID-19: Indian children orphaned by the pandemic
The institute has included all those journalists who died after getting infected while covering news in the field or working in offices. These range from reporters at media organizations, stringers, freelancers, photojournalists and journalists.
The states of Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Delhi and Telangana account for most of the deaths. Treat journalists as frontline workers
Journalists are particularly at risk of contracting the virus as many are required to visit hospitals, crematoriums and other high-risk locations to highlight the problems faced by the public during the pandemic.
Despite the heightened risk and rising toll, journalists haven t been designated as frontline workers in most states. This has meant that they were not given priority in the vaccination program in those places.
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
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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