Yogita Limaye
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BBC News South Asia & Afghanistan Correspondent; occasionally in other parts of the world.
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Staggering aid cuts Taliban restrictions drive some mothers to give ‘sleep medicine’ to hungry babies. Nearly 90% Afghans don’t have enough to eat, a third at emergency hunger levels.
@AamirPeerzadaa
@Imo_Anderson
@sanjayganguly
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The real takeaway from the
#Taliban
presser was the courage of Afghan journalists - asking tough, direct questions of a group known to target people from the profession, rebutting when answers were evasive, asking more pointed questions when answers were vague.
#Afghanistan
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I remember 50 yrs of independence. We hoisted the tricolour at school, sang the national anthem. Listened to Rahman's 'Maa Tujhe Salaam' on tape - play, rewind, play. We felt proud and patriotic, and it all came naturally. No one asked us to do it. They were simpler times.
#India
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#India
#UttarPradesh
In Muzaffarnagar, a woman told us how her home had been vandalised by the police in the dead of the night. Their car, windows, mirrors, electronic appliances, crockery all broken. Jeweller, cash stolen.
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Without fear or favour
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‘the greatest actor of our times’
#ShahRukhKhan
on
#IrrfanKhan
My friend...inspiration & the greatest actor of our times. Allah bless your soul Irrfan bhai...will miss you as much as cherish the fact that you were part of our lives.
“पैमाना कहे है कोई, मैखाना कहे है दुनिया तेरी आँखों को भी, क्या क्या ना कहे है” Love u
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30 mins ago,I got a happy message, that a friend on ventilator was showing signs of recovery.A few mins later,I found out his father was now in hospital.10 mins later I learnt that a friend, younger than me, died. She never got to meet her newborn. I’m out of words.
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Yesterday was
#ShahRukhKhan
's birthday. For various reasons, not sure the current generation of actors would attract such a following. Will SRK's generation be the last to achieve Bollywood superstardom?
The sea of love as I see it. Thank u all for being there and making this day ever so special. Gratitude…and only Love to you all.
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Statement issued by MediaOne TV reacting to 48 hour ban imposed on the channel over its reporting of the Delhi violence.
#India
#PressFreedom
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She says police told her and her family to leave, and that her home would soon become theirs. She says there were also some people in plain clothes with the police. She says
#Muslim
families are living in terror in
#UttarPradesh
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Every global crisis provides a section of the Indian press an opportunity to spread
#fakenews
that favours the govt. The foreign min called this ‘absolutely inaccurate’ but by then it’s spread to so many WhatsApp groups everywhere that it is what the man on the street believes.
India Today managed to STOP WAR for 6hrs in Kharkiv to get there students rescued . Power Of New India 🇮🇳 . Gang will be all out with NegativeAgenda but just give it a thought . Jai Hind
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In Muzaffarnagar, Meerut, Bijnor and Kanpur, the BBC has met the families of those who died in the protests. 19 were killed in
#UttarPradesh
All were civilians, most had bullet injuries. This is the elderly mother of Mohammad Mohsin who was shot in the chest.
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This - a chief minister from
#Modi
’s party - making a jibe against Muslims, is among the many pieces of evidence that raise questions about the credibility of claims of ‘no discrimination against religious minorities’ and ‘India celebrates diversity’ made by the PM in the US.
There are many Hussain Obama in India itself. We should prioritize taking care of them before considering going to Washington. The Assam police will act according to our own priorities.
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Photos from another home in the neighbourhood. They also told us police barged in at night and broke everything. We heard similar stories in every
#Muslim
locality we went to.
#India
#UttarPradesh
Police have denied the allegations & told the BBC they've recd no such complaints
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Grief, fear & anger.This is ground reality. It’s our job to bear witness. But it’s also deeply personal. Every story I hear, I’m thinking this could be my family, my friends. No one is unaffected. It’s not just
#India
’s crisis either. There’s no ‘normal’ until it ends everywhere
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Several videos have emerged that raise serious qs about police behaviour. This CCTV footage is from a shop in a Muslim locality in Meerut that shows police trying to break the camera.
#India
#UttarPradesh
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Doctors at Pentamed hospital in Delhi say they are running out of oxygen. dozens of lives hang in the balance here if they run out.
#India
#oxygen
#covid19
#oxygenappeal
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Indian women's hockey: Sixteen stories of struggle - ‘She will run around the field wearing a short skirt and bring a bad name to your family," captain Rani Rampal's parents were told. Vandana Katariya was discouraged because it was "unbecoming of a girl"
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Shocked. This is utterly heartbreaking. Danish was on our flight to Kabul and told me how much he likes being in Afghanistan just before we parted ways in the parking lot. A brave journalist who’s chronicled so many important stories. RIP.
THREAD.
Afghan Special Forces, the elite fighters are on various frontlines across the country. I tagged along with these young men for some missions. Here is what happened in Kandahar today while they were on a rescue mission after spending the whole night on a combat mission.
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We also met 3 minors who say they were detained and beaten by the police. Two had their hands broken, and all had wounds on their backs and legs. Most were too scared to be photographed.This mother holds up the bloodied shirt her 14-year-old son was wearing
#India
#UttarPradesh
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In the span of six months, Indian Muslim women find themselves ‘up for sale’ for a second time. The info tech minister says the content has been blocked. Perpetrators yet to be found.
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From Kashmir to Ayodhya, Modi marks another day of erasure and insult against Muslims writes
@RanaAyyub
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Indian journalist who’s been critical of the government of
#India
stopped at Indian immigration while she was on her way to deliver a speech in London on the intimidation of journalists.
I was stopped today at the Indian immigration while I was about to board my flight to London to deliver my speech on the intimidation of journalists with
@ICFJ
. I was to travel to Italy right after to deliver the keynote address at the
@journalismfest
on the Indian democracy
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Very volatile in Yamuna Vihar. We’ve seen mobs of men carrying sticks and stones. There’s been arson. We were being stopped from filming. You can someone yelling that at the end of video.
#DelhiBurning
#DelhiViolence
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Her 14-year-old son says he was accused of throwing stones & told to say the names of Hindu Gods as he was being beaten by police.He says his religion was abused.Among other injuries,he has a burn wound on his hand which he says was inflicted with a hot rod
#India
#UttarPradesh
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Prime Minister Modi expressing concern about
#democracy
in the US after the violence at the Capitol building earlier this year. Would that be counted as an ‘internal matter’ for America?
#India
👇🏽
Distressed to see news about rioting and violence in Washington DC. Orderly and peaceful transfer of power must continue. The democratic process cannot be allowed to be subverted through unlawful protests.
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Millions will not survive the winter in
#Afghanistan
. We saw the distressing impact of starvation on babies at
@MSF
hosp in Herat. Families are selling a child to feed their other children. One of our team was asked if we want to buy a baby.
@Imo_Anderson
@sanjayganguly
@gpjhill
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It’s hard not to be overwhelmed by this man’s service
#India
#covid19
- the best of humanity in the worst of times
I sold my wife's jewellery for this. I queue up outside a refill centre & get oxygen. My contact number is available on social media. People can call me up if there's no ambulance. I've been doing this for 15-20 days now & have taken 9 serious patients to hospital: Javed Khan
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2006 - I’d left my engg degree in what was then considered a ‘risky’ move to work in journalism.He never questioned it.I only got letters of love,pride & support. As a friend says - as 80s girls in India,we couldn’t be the women we are, if our fathers were not the men they were.
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In
#India
, a Muslim comedian is jailed for a joke he didn’t crack. A Hindu leader, seen exhorting people to kill Muslims, goes on to tell NDTV ‘the constitution is wrong’, she’s not arrested. Police say no-one filed a complaint.
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Tranquillisers & antidepressants are being given by
#Afghanistan
families to children to stop them crying from hunger and go to sleep.We also met families who had sold organs & children to survive. Away from the world’s attention, a disaster is unfolding.
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A beautiful family lost in the violence of Easter Sunday. Rangana Fernando, his wife Danadiri, 6 yr old daughter Biola, 4 yr old daughter Leona and eleven month old son Seth, pictured here on Seth’s baptism. Today is their funeral. Unimaginable grief here in Negombo.
#srilanka
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2 medical students make a dancing video. It goes viral. A man suggests on social media that the female student be careful because the male student is a Muslim. More students make another dancing video to protest the remark. This story is saddening and heartening in equal measure
Kerala medicos perform viral Rasputin dance in support of Janaki and Naveen.
#Rasputindance
#Keralamedicos
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A hospital couldn’t save one of its own doctors because they didn’t get
#oxygen
in time. It’s been more than ten days since the oxygen crisis has been acute. More than ten days.
Hospital employees paying respects to a doctor who died due to the oxygen shortage at Batra Hospital. A total of 8 people died till now.
@the_hindu
@THNewDelhi
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Always been superstitious about the amaltas (Indian laburnum) tree. Have always believed seeing it in full bloom is a good sign. I find myself staring at these intently these days.
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Thread - Judging past leaders through the lens of the present might leave the world with no heroes at all. But it's hard to make progress without the acceptance of the full truth of their lives. I write about the legacy of Winston
#Churchill
in
#India
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The UN says a ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ is unfolding in
#Afghanistan
. In Kunduz city, capital of Kunduz province, besieged by the Taliban, 35000 displaced have arrived in just 4 weeks. They’ve been through unimaginable horrors. These are their stories.
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#Kabul
airport this morning. All the words that come to mind seem too small to describe this.
#Afghanistan
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When my colleague
@ArunodayM
asked Sanjeev Balyan, BJP MP from Muzaffarnagar and union minister, about minors being picked up, he said he himself saw 12-18 year olds participating in violent protests, and so the police had to take action against them.
#India
#UttarPradesh
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More journalists who’ve been critical of the government in
#India
, facing police complaints, tax investigations.
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Danish Siddiqui: Remembering India's Pulitzer prize-winning photographer through his work
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What does it mean to die of starvation? What does that look like? A parent forced to do the unthinkable - sell their child. This report will be a hard watch. But I don’t have the words to express the scale of what’s unfolding in
#Afghanistan
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The tomb of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan in Jalalabad,
#Afghanistan
. One wonders if future generations will grow up knowing about ‘Frontier Gandhi’ and his contribution to the freedom of
#India
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‘I’ve been questioned by at least 3 investigating agencies over past 3 months, made to sit for 12 hrs at a stretch, interrogated abt my ‘connections’ with intl editors & publications….neither I nor my brave colleagues can be silenced’ ~
@RanaAyyub
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‘Sometimes you just want to scream loudly’ Afghan girls and women on increasing Taliban restrictions. All day on BBC News -
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‘What Republic does cannot be called journalism... It's just good reality TV’
@MnshaP
told me for this piece where I look at what Arnab Goswami & Republic do every night.They didn’t respond to qs about airing fake news, & propaganda for the national govt
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After nearly 2 years of home broadcasting, one should’ve become a pro, but I clearly haven’t learnt, and my doggo had other plans. Apologies to those who were watching
@BBCWorld
in the past hour, from Pepper & me. I’ve just told him his bark has now been heard around the world.
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#Afghanistan
Girls are facing the biggest rollback in human rights in recent times. Lives shut down,after yrs of struggle to study through poverty, violence.Taliban's vice & virtue ministry has no answers on when their rights will be restored. With
@imo_anderson
@sanjayganguly
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Police say they didn't open fire, but that some among the protesters had guns, and that those who were killed, were hit in crossfire. Police say the protesters started the violence.
#India
#UttarPradesh
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Things changing at incredible speed in
#Afghanistan
. Started day talking about the fall of Ghazni, a strategically imp city and within 12 hrs we’re looking at even more significant cities. Officials have told the BBC Herat has fallen;increasing reports Kandahar has been overrun.
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WATCH:Alprazolam among other drugs being given by
#Afghanistan
families to children to stop them crying from hunger and go to sleep.We also met families who had sold organs & children to survive. Away from the world’s attn, a disaster is unfolding.
@imo_anderson
@MalikMudassir2
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#India
’s health minister responds to letter from former PM who suggested measures to deal with
#covid19
crisis. Blames oppn Congress to which fmr PM belongs for ‘irresponsible public pronouncements’. In March, Harsh Vardhan had said the pandemic was ‘in the endgame’ in
#India
.
History shall be kinder to you Dr Manmohan Singh ji if your offer of ‘constructive cooperation’ and valuable advice was followed by your
@INCIndia
leaders as well in such extraordinary times !
Here’s my reply to your letter to Hon’ble PM Sh
@narendramodi
ji 👍
@PMOIndia
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Two judges of
#Afghanistan
’s Supreme Court were shot dead in Kabul this morning. The latest in a series of attacks on journalists, women’s rights activists, and women in government jobs.
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‘The hate she’s facing has been escalating for years but it’s so intense at the moment…When I receive urgent calls from Rana, my immediate instinct is concern for her life.’ Rebecca Vincent of
@RSF_inter
on
@RanaAyyub
#India
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‘Russian soldiers raped me and killed my husband' We’ve heard first-hand testimony and found evidence of Ukrainian women being raped by invading soldiers. With
@Imo_Anderson
@sanjayganguly
@Anastasiia_Lev
@DariaSipigina
#Ukraine
#Russia
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‘There are
#Taliban
right at my doorstep, & there are a few of them forcing our family to provide them dinner. If we refuse we will face force. 100s of them in streets. They don’t speak local language ie Dari, Pashto or Uzbeki’ a
#Kabul
resident tells
@BBCYaldaHakim
#Afghanistan
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Editors Guild of
#India
demands the release of journalist Mohammad Zubair. They say it's necessary to buttress Prime Minister Narendra Modi's commitments at the G7 meet in Germany to ensure a resilient
#democracy
by protecting online and offline content.
#PressFreedom
The Editors Guild of India condemns the arrest of Muhammad Zubair, co-founder of the fact checking site AltNews, by the Delhi Police on June 27, for a tweet from 2018. EGI demands that the Delhi Police should immediately release Muhammad Zubair.
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The number of miscarriages & newborns dying in Badakhshan,
#Afghanistan
has DOUBLED in past year. We'd expected the number to be higher, but not this high. Hunger and stress the main reasons. Almost everyone told us they can only afford 1 meal a day.
@imo_anderson
@sanjayganguly
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‘A top Indian movie star who enjoys cult status told me early in the yr that his blood boils seeing activists and students being thrown behind bars, but that he feared that expressing support would bring retaliation from the govt’ writes
@RanaAyyub
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#India
’s finance minister is talking about opposition parties here, and not Indians in general. But it’s quite an unsubtle deflection from answering a question about criticism that the govt did not order enough vaccines.
#covid
“They said, I will not take it, that is Modi’s vaccine, that’s BJP vaccine”. Today, you are saying, “Oh, where is the vaccine?” Be consistent. You want it or you don’t want it? Make up your mind.”
Interview in
@timesofindia
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UK parliament debating a petition on press freedom and safety of protestors in
#India
related to the
#farmerprotests
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One year since our last photo together as a family. Felt so cheesy then, but I’m ever so grateful for it now. Seven months since my sister, mum and I lost one of our best friends.
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Honoured to be nominated among the best in the business, and there would be no work to showcase without the greats I’m lucky to work with. This is something I could never have imagined for myself, so to everyone who has believed in me, I owe a great debt.
Celebrating excellent and creative journalism in the past year, the nominees for the RTS Television Journalism Awards 2022, sponsored by
@Wolftech_B_S_AS
, have been announced!
See the full list of nominations here:
#journalism
#RTSAwards
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Millions of Indians, particularly those who’ve taken
#Covaxin
, same jab as we were told the PM and foreign minister Jaishankar got, are wondering when they will be free to travel and recognised as fully vaccinated people abroad.
A long flight also means opportunities to go through papers and some file work.
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14 minutes into the PM's speech, nothing concrete about the lockdown, whether or not it's getting extended, or the roadmap to fight
#coronavirus
.
#India
#COVID19
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Opinion | India pushes out Amnesty International, accelerating its march toward authoritarianism - writes
@RanaAyyub
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A bit of self promotion this morning 🙋🏻♀️
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‘I was raped and my husband was killed’ We heard first hand testimony of women being raped invading soldiers.
#Ukrain
#Russia
with
@imo_anderson
@sanjayganguly
@anastasiia_lev
@dariasipigina
Warning: The report contains graphic descriptions of sexual violence
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My father just missed seeing the country he loved fiercely turn 75. He’s left his mark on it in the bridges he designed.And he taught us about freedom, tolerance and equality by practising it in our home. To the
#India
built on those ideals, Happy Independence Day, आज़ादी मुबारक!
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Delighted that our work in Afghanistan has been nominated for an Emmy. Deeply proud of the BBC’s commitment to covering
#Afghanistan
and forever in debt of the trust, courage and kindness of the people who continue to speak to us for our reports.
Congratulations! For the full list of the 44th Annual
#NewsEmmys
Awards nominees, please visit our website at . Be sure to tune in on
@TheEmmys
app or at on September 27th & 28th!
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This was our team on NYE. It takes a village to make television. Warm wishes and hearts filled with hope for peace and happiness this new year.
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This was at 1230 TODAY 25/02/2020 at Gokulpuri. We saw just two policeman standing a few hundred metres away from these men. Raises serious questions about security deployment.
#DelhiBurning
#DelhiViolence
(earlier tweeted deleted because I wrote the date wrong)
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Think
@tombrook
did a pretty decent job keeping up with
#ShahRukhKhan
Dancing, and a lot more on
#TalkingMovies
tonight at 2300 IST and tomorrow at 1000,1600 on
@BBCWorld
@tejash212
@suranjanasays
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#Indian
journalist
@RanaAyyub
has written about intimidation by agencies in
@washingtonpost
recently. Says will reveal more details tomorrow.
In the last 3 months, I have seen the worst kind of intimidation and harassment by agencies. I had stayed quiet because I respect the law of the land. But now I will have to speak up. A detailed statement will be put out tomorrow. Calculated misinformation will be taken to court
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Almost everyone I know is swinging wildly from hope to despair, minute by minute. The only thing we can say with some certainty, perhaps, is that we won’t be the same people we were going into this.
30 mins ago,I got a happy message, that a friend on ventilator was showing signs of recovery.A few mins later,I found out his father was now in hospital.10 mins later I learnt that a friend, younger than me, died. She never got to meet her newborn. I’m out of words.
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