Privately-run television station, RaajjeTV has gone into lockdown with a number of its staff camping at its premises, following the extension of the lockdown declared across the Greater Malé Region.

With the ever-changing situation of the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic across the country, authorities imposed a lockdown across the region after the discovery of a cluster of Covid-19 cases in the country’s capital a few days back. Since then, a record number of infections have been reported from the city, crossing 30 on Sunday since the first case emerged last Wednesday.

Following this, the station went into a full lockdown early Sunday, with a number of its staff setting up camp inside the premises, which has been closed off to the public.

The station’s Deputy COO, Naazmee Saeed stressed that the station saw it fit to take this action as a precautionary measure for the safety of their staff, due to the worsening Covid-19 situation.

As such, the station remains hopeful that this measure will ensure the tireless work and services of its journalists and other staff, is not hindered in any way during these trying times during which the general public is reliant on responsible reporting.

Employees that have not been stationed at RaajjeTV will work from home until the lockdown period comes to an end.

The first-ever round-the-clock television station in the Maldives has been working on the frontlines of media to provide updates of the pandemic, which surfaced from China in December 2019, to the people and is the first station to have introduced a coverage specialized for the Covid-19 situation across the globe.

Included in the station’s work to provide the latest updates to the people are a 24-hour live blog and statistics on RaajjeMV’s website as well as the freshest, latest news.

RaajjeMV’s live blog has garnered close to 900,000 viewers to date.