TIWN May 16, 2020
AGARTALA, May 16 (TIWN): Few days after COVID19 tests for all journalist announced by Chief Minister Biplab Deb, in the press club, journalists samples were taken.The results has been given 4 days after but all tested negative.
“Glad to know that with the grace of Mata Tripurasundari the test results of all Tripura Journalist's for COVID-19 have come NEGATIVE. However, I urge the Journalists to take precautionary measures and obey Govt guidelines while working”, CM tweeted.
This would be a regular process as journalists, photojournalists have to travel various places everyday for news coverage.
As photojournalists and other media persons are moving across the State to cover COVID19 and other issues, thus, Govt of Tripura has announced to conduct tests for all the media persons to find out whether anyone of them is infected with the virus or not.
This decision was announced after various states’ journalists were found COVID19 positive.
But, all the media persons were tested negative.
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