When the media is affected: My Covid-19 experience


NO one would have thought media personnel would be among those placed under a 14-day self quarantine for suspected Covid-19 exposure when chasing news on the political crisis over the last week.

Being in the frontline of reporting, my colleague Martin Carvalho and I were among those who were identified as being at risk of contracting the virus, after covering an event of a former minister who came into contact with an infected person recently.

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