{"id":14933,"date":"2020-06-03T12:24:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T07:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=14933"},"modified":"2020-06-03T12:24:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T07:24:31","slug":"at-least-127-journalists-died-in-3-months-from-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/14933","title":{"rendered":"At least 127 journalists died in 3 months from COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GENEVA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At least 127 journalists in 31 countries have died due to the novel coronavirus over the past three months, the Geneva-based Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Media workers play an important role in the fight against the novel coronavirus. They have to inform about the spread of the disease,&#8221; said PEC Secretary-General Blaise Lempen in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A number of them died for lack of adequate protective measures when doing their job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to a count by the NGO, between March 1 and May 31, at least 127 journalists died due to COVID-19. Around two-thirds of them were on duty.<\/p>\n<p>In May alone, 72 victims were counted.<\/p>\n<p>By region, Latin America was the most affected continent with at least 62 journalists, followed by Europe with 23, Asia 17, North America 13, and Africa 12.<\/p>\n<p>Peru is the country with the highest number of victims, 15, followed by Brazil and Mexico with 13 victims each, and 12 in Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p>There were 12 victims in the US and eight in Russia and Pakistan each.<\/p>\n<p>Next in line comes the UK with five, Bangladesh with four deaths, then three deaths each in Bolivia, Cameroon, the Dominican Republic, France, India, Italy, and Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Two victims were identified each in Algeria, Colombia, Egypt, Sweden, and one in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Iran, Japan, Morocco, Nicaragua, Nigeria, South Africa, Togo, and Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>Several hundred other media workers tested positive for the virus, and some media had to be temporarily closed.<\/p>\n<p>The PEC said its count is based on numerous sources, including national associations of journalists, local media, and PEC correspondents worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENEVA At least 127 journalists in 31 countries have died due to the novel coronavirus over the past three months, the Geneva-based Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) said Tuesday. &#8220;Media workers play an important role in the fight against the novel coronavirus. They have to inform about the spread of the disease,&#8221; said PEC Secretary-General Blaise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14935,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14933\/revisions\/14935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}