{"id":101395,"date":"2020-04-21T14:01:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T21:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=101395"},"modified":"2020-04-21T14:01:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T21:01:22","slug":"journalists-forum-assam-expresses-concern-over-covid-19-infection-to-media-persons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/21\/journalists-forum-assam-expresses-concern-over-covid-19-infection-to-media-persons\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalists\u2019 Forum Assam expresses concern over Covid-19 infection to media persons"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Nava Thakuria<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Guwahati: Journalists\u2019 Forum Assam (JFA) expresses\nconcern over the infection to a large number of media persons while they went\non reporting about novel corona virus outbreak across India. It terms the news\nof over 50 journalists turning Covid-19 positive in a single city as horrible\nand requests every scribe on the ground to follow the necessary guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local reports reveal that at least 53 media persons\nincluding reporters, video journalists, news photographers in Mumbai were\ntested positive for the deadly virus. Chennai reported two cases of media<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Covid-19 positive and Bhopal witnessed one scribe with\nthe corona infection. All affected journalists were reportedly sent for\nquarantine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While appealing to all working journalists for\nmaintaining health protocols in the time of a pandemic, we also urge the\ngovernment to extend the benefits of Rs 50 lakh insurance cover to media\npersons on duty hours in the line of health professionals, sanitation workers,\npolice personnel etc,\u201d said a statement issued by JFA president Rupam Barua and\nsecretary Nava Thakuria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The news media, which has been exempted from the\nnationwide lockdown to carry out its duty, carries the obligation to inform the\npeople about the Covid-19 pandemic along with the authority\u2019s efforts to combat\nthe catastrophe, JFA preaches the scribes to follow&nbsp; some recognised guidelines (like those\nincluded in the Committee to Protect Journalists site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpj.org\/2020\/02\/cpj-safety-advisory-covering-the-coronavirus-outbr.php\">www.cpj.org\/2020\/02\/cpj-safety-advisory-covering-the-coronavirus-outbr.php<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>or <a href=\"https:\/\/cpj.org\/coronavirus_safety_advisory_assamese.pdf\">https:\/\/cpj.org\/coronavirus_safety_advisory_assamese.pdf<\/a>)\nfor their own safety and securities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nava Thakuria Guwahati: Journalists\u2019 Forum Assam (JFA) expresses concern over the infection to a large number of media persons while they went on reporting about novel corona virus outbreak across India. It terms the news of over 50 journalists turning Covid-19 positive in a single city as horrible and requests every scribe on the ground [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nava-thakuria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}