A 45-year-old photo journalist with a vernacular news channel became the first journalist in Tripura to succumb to COVID-19 on tuesday. Jitendra Debbarma a photo journalist of champaknagar balaramthakur para, with the Cheni khorang news channel, passed away at around 12 P.M. on tuesday at kherengbar hospital here after his oxygen levels plummeted drastically due to breathing problem. Deceased left two daughters.
