Coronavirus: Reporting Covid-19

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It’s a year since Covid-19 was declared a pandemic. Many of us around the world have felt the impact and many of us have been learning on a daily basis about the development of the coronavirus. BBC OS has been bringing people together each day, in conversation, to share their experience of the pandemic. For news organisations this has been one of the biggest stories of a generation; one that has touched and affected so many, in so many places. In a special edition, Nuala McGovern speaks with journalists in various countries who have spent every working day of the past year reporting on the coronavirus. She discusses the challenges of documenting the unrelenting nature of the virus; presenting the scientific facts and addressing misinformation and misunderstanding. (Photo: Intensivist doctor and chief of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Intensive Care Unit (ICU) ward Flavia Machado gives support to doctor Daniere Tomotani after a patient died at Hospital Sao Paulo in Sao Paulo, Brazil March 17, 2021. Credit: Amanda Perobelli/Reuters)