Another journalist in Odisha dies of Covid-19

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Published By : Prameya News Bureau | July 12, 2020 IST

Bhubaneswar, July 12: A 71 year old journalist working for a Telugu newspaper in Gajapati district of Odisha succumbed to Covid -19. The journalist K.Ch Ratnam breathed his last at a Bhubaneswar based private hospital on Sunday. He is the second journalist of Odisha to die from Covid-19. On Saturday a 45-year-old reporter of an Odia daily working in Hinjilikatu of Ganjam district has succumbed to the virus. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in April had announced that the state will provide an ex-gratia of Rs 15 lakh to next of kin of working journalists dying due to Covid-19.

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