Impact of pandemic and lockdown on Rajasthan's economy: In Dausa's Balaheri village, 120 Kms from Jaipur, a community of around 50 families that specialize in making brassware are struggling to make ends meet. Reporting with @shivangi441 for @newslaundry & @nlhindi Covid has killed one person in this village and the lockdown has hit hard. With most of the artisans dependent on middlemen who pay them on the basis of no. of pieces, monthly income of Rs 20k-25k has come to a nought.

Om Prakash Sharma lost his son Rahul, 33, when the ambulance taking them from Alwar to Jaipur ran out of Oxygen. An inquiry found the hospital staff not just guilty of dereliction of duty but also negligence as Rahul, a Covid patient, was being treated by a homeopathy doctor. Saurabh, a resident of Bansur tehsil in Alwar, lost his mother as they struggled to find a ventilator bed. Family tried calling local BJP MP Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Rajasthan's health minister Raghu Sharma and an MLA from Nagaur district but no help came.

A sub centre (that comes under PHC) in Alwar's Raghunathgadh village. Approved in 2011 it's still not ready owing to a dispute. For local health workers however it's vaccine hesitancy that's posing a bigger challenge these days. Reporting with @shivangi441 from Rajasthan Anwar, a truck driver, decided to get #Covid vaccine after being told by his employer. He is familiar with videos doing the rounds that refer to the vaccine as 'zeher ka tika'. Story coming soon on @newslaundry and @nlhindi

Grief. Sense of loss. Helplessness. And a State that terribly failed its people. A month of documenting the second wave of #COVID19 for @newslaundry. Thread on stories filed:
How the death of journo Vinay Srivastava exposed healthcare facility in Lucknow
newslaundry.com/2021/04/21/vin… April 17: When migrant workers began to head back home soon after the announcement of weekend lockdown in Delhi.
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Balmukund Dubey's wife lost her husband right outside the gate of CHC in Shohratgarh tehsil. CHC's gate was closed and the ambulance carrying Balmukund had left soon after dropping them. Balmukund's younger brother, Manoj Dubey, tried calling on the helpline no. 1076 but got no help.

At the district hospital in UP's Siddharthnagar, space in a lobby that connects the wards being used to accommodate more patients. Dhanraj Maurya was brought to the hospital on 4 May by his family after he complained of breathlessness. Next day when we met Maurya's family, his grandson complained, 'No doctor is coming to examine him, we are made to run here and there.'

Breaking: Bloomsbury India is withdrawing publication of the book 'Delhi Riots 2020: The Untold Story'. Publishing house issues a fresh statement after yesterday's controversy. @newslaundry @nlhindi Statement by Bloomsbury India (1/n): 'Bloomsbury India had planned to release Delhi Riots 2020: The Untold Story in September a book purportedly giving a factual report on the riots in Delhi in February 2020, based on investigations and interviews conducted by the authors.'