-TheWire.in Dainik Bhaskar's analysis of tweets posted by ten Union ministers revealed that none of them tweeted to help a COVID-19 victim find an oxygen cylinder or a hospital bed through handles. New Delhi: During the first two weeks of May when social media was filled with SOS messages for ‘oxygen’ and ‘ventilator beds’, Union ministers were proactive on Twitter praising the prime minister and the Centre’s efforts in managing the pandemic....
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Why aren’t journalists covering the Covid disaster showing 'positive news'? -Diksha Munjal
-Newslaundry.com 'What positivity do we look for in people's suffering?' “A 29-year-old man died in the hospital while his wailing wife and children waited outside,” Ronak Shah, a reporter for the Gujarati daily Sandesh said, recalling a tragedy he witnessed on April 12. “The three-year-old daughter kept saying, ‘My father is coming soon and we are here to take him home. I offered her a biscuit to eat, she did not take...
More »The Hunger Pandemic -CP Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
-The Hindu Business Line/ NetworkIdeas.org The disease ripping through the country is only one of the destructive forces affecting the lives of hundreds of millions of Indians. The dramatic increase in hunger is another. Like devastation wrought by the current surge in coronavirus infections, this too is the result of policy failure and official callousness. It is already causing immense suffering among affected people and will have serious repercussions on their...
More »'Not COVID': Stunned by Data, Gujarat Blames Death Certificate Spurt on Duplicate Registrations -Darshan Desai
-TheWire.in The state government says 4,218 people died of Covid in the period March 1-May 10, 2021. But it issued 1,23,871 death certificates in these 71 days &NDAsh; which was 65,781 more than it had for the same period in 2020. Most of these excess deaths are clearly Covid related. Ahmedabad: For the past three months, photos and reports of long queues at crematoriums and cemeteries in the national and the local...
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-TheWire.in More than 900 dead bodies have reportedly been buried along the river in Unnao alone last week. New Delhi: The devastating second wave of the coronavirus pandemic is slowly turning into a horror story in India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh. Days after Bihar’s Buxar district authorities said that at least 71 bodies of suspected COVID-19 victims from the neighbouring eastern UP were washed ashore at the banks of the river Ganga...
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