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COVID-19: Delhi Begins Mass Testing for Journalists

This came a day after a journalist brought it to the CM’s attention that 53 scribes had tested positive in Mumbai.

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The first round of testing media persons for COVID-19 in the national capital began on Wednesday, 22 April, tweeted Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

Following a tweet by a Mumbai-based journalist Anurag Dhanda on Tuesday on how 53 journalists in Mumbai had tested positive for coronavirus, Kejriwal had agreed to arrange for mass tests for journalists in Delhi as well.

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The media persons who tested positive for the coronavirus in Mumbai mostly belonged to TV channels. They had been continuously covering the pandemic. A special medical camp was organised on 16 and 17 April at the Azad Maidan for testing all journalists who have been exposed.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in Mumbai has tested 167 journalists, including field staff from electronic and print media houses, reporters, photographers and camera persons, from news organisations across the city. Most of those who were tested positive are asymptomatic.

The media persons are being treated and held in quarantine at a hotel in Goregaon.

Meanwhile, in Chennai three journalists have tested positive for coronavirus. One of them is a 25-year-old reporter working for a print publication, another, a 23-year-old journalist who is part of the editorial team of a broadcast channel and the third, a journalist working for a regional news channel.

Tracing the contact and travel history, the state health department has instructed all journalists who have been attending the daily press conferences and been in touch with these journalists to get tested at Bharathi college opposite Stanley Medical College.

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