PODGORICA, 08.04.2020 – Representatives of the Montenegrin media have recently received a certain amount of protective medical equipment from the state.
The Ministry of Culture stated that protective equipment was provided for media workers employed in television, local public broadcasters, print media, and who were exposed to fieldwork on a daily basis.
This decision was supported by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro.
“The Mission welcomes the decision of the Government of Montenegro to provide certain amount of protective equipment for media representatives” the OSCE statet on their official facebook account.
During the current epidemic situation, in addition to health workers and police officers, journalists, reporters and cameramen are the most exposed to risk of infection.