One more Indian journalist died of Covid-19, global tally at 867 Punjab News Express | March 12, 2021 04:24 PM GENEVA/GUWAHATI: One more senior journalist based in Madhya Pradesh in central India died of Covid-19 to increase the tally of media corona casualty up to 57 in the south Asian country, where the global count crosses 865 journalists. Kamal Dixit, who also taught journalism in Makhanlal Chaturvedi University succumbed to novel corona virus aggravated ailments on Wednesday in a Bhopal hospital. “So far, at least 867 journalists died of Covid-19 in 69 countries, where Brazil with 109 media corona casualties has lately replaced Peru (108) to top the list of most affected countries, ” said Blaise Lempen, secretary-general of Press Emblem Campaign (https://pressemblem.ch/), a Switzerland based nonprofit organization focusing on press freedom and safety.Other nations with high media casualties include Mexico (88), Italy (48), Bangladesh (44), USA (44), Ecuador (42), Colombia (37), United Kingdom (28), Pakistan (23), Turkey (21), Panama (16), Bolivia, Russia, Ukraine (14 each), Spain (13), etc said a statement of PEC, which started counting the corona deaths since March 2020 as a tribute