Bhubaneswar: Another journalist died of COVID-19 in the state on Sunday.
The journalist, belonging to Gajapati district, was working with the ‘Eenadu’, a Telugu newspaper.
According to sources, the 75-year-old journalist was undergoing treatment at a COVID hospital in Bhubaneswar after he tested positive for the disease.
He is the second journalist of Odisha to have succumbed to the COVID-19 in the last 24 hours. A 47-year-old scribe based at Hinjili in Ganjam district died of the deadly virus on Saturday.
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