COVID-19: When gaps in data and communication made the crisis worse
COVID-19: When gaps in data and communication made the crisis worse
THE COMMUNICATION CRISIS DURING THE PANDEMIC
In Bengaluru, the Municipality s Special Commissioner (finance) M Lokesh convinced migrant workers and their families heading back to their villages in tractors to stay. They were assured of food and shelter. Pic: Twitter handle of BBMP Commissioner
“It was a tough time and we were really stressed and worried,” recalled Adarsh, a student pursuing law in a Dehradun college. Adarsh was one of many students who had come to study in one of Dehradun’s many educational institutions who were caught totally unprepared by the sudden lockdown last March. “We really struggled to understand the government rules and make sense of it”.