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8 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The scale of our tragedy:

6 out of 18 pages in Saurashtra Samachar’s Bhavnagar edition today contain obituaries.

It has 161 obituaries — 60 with photos and 101 text-only.

It had 35 obituaries two months back, on March 8.

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Remaining two pages from today’s newspaper that contain text-only obituaries:

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Please note:

1. Gujarat govt’s data shows 53 Covid patients died yesterday in the entire Saurashtra region, which consists of 11 districts including Bhavnagar.

2. Not everyone who has lost a loved one gets an obituary published. Especially not the poor.

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3. The aforementioned figure of 161 is from Bhavnagar edition of one of the Gujarati newspapers.

4. People are not just a statistic.

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9 May
The scale of our tragedy:

7 out of 20 pages in Saurashtra Samachar’s Bhavnagar edition today contain obituaries.

It has 195 obituaries — 63 with photos & 132 text-only.

It had 21 obituaries two months back, on March 9.

21 to 195.

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Remaining 3 pages from today’s paper that contain text-only obituaries:

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Please note:

1. Gujarat govt’s data says 54 Covid patients died yesterday in the entire Saurashtra region, which consists of 11 districts including Bhavnagar.

12 out of these 54 died yesterday in Bhavnagar, as per Guj govt’s data.

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7 May
The scale of our tragedy:

7 out of 18 pages in Saurashtra Samachar’s Bhavnagar edition today contain just obituaries.

It has 220 obituaries — 82 with photos and 138 text-only.

It had 44 obituaries just two months back, on March 7.

44 to 220.

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Remaining 3 pages from today’s paper that contain obituaries:

(2/4)
Please note:

1. Gujarat govt data says 54 Covid patients died yesterday in the entire Saurashtra region, which consists of 11 districts including Bhavnagar.

2. Not everyone who has lost a loved one gets an obituary published. Especially not the poor.

(3/4)
Read 4 tweets
Deepak Patel Profile picture
6 May
The scale of our tragedy:

8 out of 16 pages in Saurashtra Bhaskar’s Bhavnagar edition today contain just obituaries.

It has 238 obituaries — 162 text-only & 76 with photos of the deceased.

It had 28 obituaries two months back, on March 6.

28 to 238.

(1/4)
Remaining 4 pages from today’s newspaper that contain obituaries:

(2/4)
Please note:

1. Gujarat govt’s data shows only 53 people died of Covid yesterday in the entire Saurashtra region, which consists of 11 districts including Bhavnagar.

2. Not everyone who has lost a loved one gets an obituary published. Especially not the poor.

(3/4)
Read 5 tweets
Deepak Patel Profile picture
6 May
17,822 bodies were cremated or buried as per Covid protocol in 7 major cities of Gujarat in last 1 month: Sandesh

But Gujarat govt’s data says only 1,745 people died of Covid in these 7 cities in last 1 month.

“False, half-baked data drowned Gujarat” in Covid: Sandesh

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Sandesh compares its figures with govt figures for the period April 6-May 4.

It says 4,471 bodies were cremated/buried as per Covid protocol in Ahmedabad in last 1 month.

Guj govt says 428 people died of Covid in Ahmedabad in last 1 month.

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Guj govt says only 39 people died of Covid in Gandhinagar in last 1 month.

Sandesh says 953 bodies were cremated/buried as per Covid protocol in Gujarat’s capital in last 1 month.

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5 May
The scale of our tragedy (in Kutch, Gujarat):

Kutchmitra newspaper today has 114 obituaries -- 100 text-only and 14 with photos.

It had 18 obituaries exactly two years back, on May 5, 2018.

18 to 114.

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Kutchmitra has one edition only - from Bhuj city of Kutch district.

Here are the pages from two years back that contain 18 obituaries (13 text-only & 5 with photos):

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Please note:

1. Gujarat govt's data says only 6 persons died of Covid in the last 2 days in Kutch district.

2. Not everyone who has lost a loved one gets an obituary published. Especially not the poor.

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5 May
The scale of our tragedy:

6 out of 16 pages of Sandesh newspaper’s Rajkot edition contain obituaries.

It has 215 obituaries — 102 text-only & 113 with photos of the deceased.

It had 48 obituaries two months back, on March 5.

48 to 215.

(1/5)
Remaining two pages from today’s newspaper that have obituaries:

(2/5)
Please note:

1. Gujarat govt’s data shows only 53 people died of Covid yesterday in the entire Saurashtra region, which consists of 11 districts including Rajkot.

2. Not everyone who has lost a loved one gets an obituary published. Especially not the poor.

(3/5)
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