The union wants authorities and media houses to make sure reporters are safe while doing their jobs.
The latest journalists to succumb to COVID-19, include state broadcaster ZBC journalist Tawanda Gudhlanga, and former Voice of America journalist Sandra Nyaira.
Zimbabwe Union of Journalists president Michael Chideme said,"our encouragement is to the authorities that, let's stop press conferences lets stop physical contacts with journalists, lets do virtual meetings so that we don't compromise our pressmen everybody needs the journalists to tell their story, you can't tell the story when journalists are dead"Mixed reaction to Level 4 lockdown in...
Abigirl Tembo said,"as part of front line workers as journalists, it's really getting tough for us, we are in the middle of the pandemic. I think at this time, what is needed is to have sensitive employers who have the welfare of employees at heart, we need PPEs as we walk around, we need like proper PPEs, we talk of surgical masks, gloves, and sanitizers."
In February, when Zimbabwe's vaccination rollout started, the government was commended for allowing journalists to be among the first to get the jab, along with other frontline workers but among the six who've died so far this year, some had only received their first dose while others were unvaccinated.Over 1,4 million people have received one dose of the vaccine while around 600,000 are fully vaccinated.
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