chennai all satellite tv and radio channels must be asked to broadcast covid19 awareness programmes vaccination and diet on daily basis in regional languages a public interest writ petition filed in madras high court has soughtnoting that news channels were repeatedly highlighting the adversity of covid19 infection glossing the good news the pilpetitioner said every day the increasing death count is highlighted while the fact that a far greater number are recovering is mentioned in passingthe petitioner b ramkumar adityan also claimed that such awareness programmes would help the government to tackle the situation in a better mannerin addition to these news are the adverse effects of complete lockdown the longer the lockdown lasts the greater will be the impact on psychological health he said apart from fear anger and hope may drive our thoughts in ways that are unrealistic and unverifiable the problem with isolation is that one has neither the resources nor the ability to check the truth of our own emotion driven thought processes he addedtherefore it has become imperative for authorities to take a few measures to sustain peoples psyche and provide access to the pandemicrelated information from authorised government portals made available to the general public which shows correct information of the current scenario the petitioner saidas a solution the petitioner wanted the court to direct the union to instruct the media to telecast awareness programmes on covid19