report writing on covid 19
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused staggering loss of life and, over the course of just a few weeks, triggered an unprecedented global shutdown. The scale of the disaster and the astonishing pace of its advance have underscored the urgent need for accurate, informative reporting about the new coronavirus. It has also tested the endurance of the journalists who are reporting the unfolding catastrophe, whether they are veteran health and science reporters or relative newcomers. “Nothing that has come before in the infectious-diseases beat is remotely as huge as this story,” says Helen Branswell, longtime infectious-diseases reporter at STAT. For many reporters, the coronavirus beat has become nearly a 24/7 job.
To document some of the challenges that reporting on COVID-19 has raised, The Open Notebook invited five journalists who are reporting from the front lines in various capacities to spend about a week reflecting on their experiences, including how they’re finding sources and keeping up on the daily torrent of new developments; the skills they’ve found most essential for pandemic reporting; and their efforts to take care of their own health and understand their role in the developing crisis. “I think about my very, very small part in all of this, and about trying to do the best work I can,” says Mark Johnson, health and science reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “If I do my work well, I hope people will know more and be less afraid.”
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Speaking to WHO personnel who are based in all states/UTs in India, via video conference in April 2020, Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare said, “WHO is an important partner in our fight against the COVID-19. I really value guidance and contributions made by the WHO in containing spread of COVID-19 across the country.”

The WHO Country Office for India (WCO India) has been working closely with the Government of India (GoI) to step-up preparedness and response measures for COVID-19, including surveillance and contact tracing, laboratory testing, risk communications and community engagement, hospital preparedness, infection prevention and control, and implementation of containment plan at all three levels of the health system – national, state and district. The entire field presence, including the National Public Health Surveillance Project, consisting of more than 2000 personnel has been fully re-purposed to support the government to overcome this challenge.
At the national level, WCO India is providing technical support to the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW) through the Joint Monitoring Group (JMG) and working closely with National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), National Disaster Management Authority and NITI Aayog. WHO teams are also supporting National and State Governments in ensuring essential health services such as immunisation, reproductive maternal newborn child and adolescent health (RMNCAH), non-communicable diseases and priority communicable diseases are available.