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4Apr

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John Alagos, Nursing Assistant

John Alagos – a Nursing Assistant at Watford General Hospital, Watford, England – passed away on 3 April,2020 due to COVID-19. John Alagos was 24 years old. Tracey Carter, chief nurse at the hospital, said: "John was very popular and will be missed greatly by his colleagues." Source: BBC News Please help us in adding details.

3Apr

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Lynsay Coventry

Lynsay Coventry, 54, was the first serving midwife in England to be killed by the virus on April 2. She had worked at the Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) in Harlow, Essex, for ten years and was described by colleagues as a “proud” midwife who was “very well respected.” Coventry’s family said: “Our hearts are broken at the loss of our loving, wonderful and caring mum, sister, daughter and grandmother. Her love for us all was unfailing and her strength in the way she cared and supported us will fill our memories. “What we also know is how proud she was to be an NHS midwife. Lynsay followed her dream and trained as a midwife later in life. It was a role she committed herself to and saw the midwifery team at the Princess Alexandra Hospital as her other family. She was a very well-respe...

3Apr

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Eddie Large, comedian

Edward Hugh McGinnis, better known by the stage name Eddie Large, was a British comedian. He died on 2 April 2020 due to Covid-19 complications. He was best known as one half of the double act Little and Large, with Syd Little (the stage name of Cyril Mead). Large was born Edward Hugh McGinnis in Glasgow in 1941. His father Teddy served as a Petty Officer in the Royal Navy during World War II and after he returned from the war the family moved to a tenement in Oatlands. When he was nine years old, the family moved again to Manchester, where he attended Claremont Road Primary School and a grammar school. He played football as a schoolboy, becoming a supporter of nearby Manchester City which had its ground opposite his home, and he maintained a lifelong devotion to the club. Afte...

3Apr

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Prof Mohamed Sami Shousha

Prof Mohamed Sami Shousha, 79, a father-of-two, died on April 2 in London after contracting the virus around two weeks earlier. “He was very keen on going to work on his final days despite the health hazards,” his nephew Abdelrahman Shousha told Middle Eastern Eye. “However, most likely, his work did not involve direct contact with Covid-19 patients.” Prof Shousha had been working at Charing Cross Hospital since 1978, where he managed the breast histopathology service, which concerns changes in tissues caused by disease. He was also an honorary professor of histopathology at Imperial College and worked at UK cancer research laboratories at London’s Hammersmith and Charing Cross hospitals. The Telegraph

3Apr

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Lynsay Coventry, Midwife

Lynsay Coventry – a Midwife at Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust, Harlow, Essex, England – passed away on 2 April, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Coventry was 54 years old. In a statement, Lance McCarthy, chief executive, The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust, said she was "a long-standing member of our maternity team who will be remembered for her professionalism and commitment to the women she supported." He added: "Her loss will be felt by the maternity team and colleagues from across the organisation." Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent, chief midwifery officer for England, said: "Lynsay was clearly a highly regarded midwife whose dedication to women, babies and their families will be remembered and cherished by her own family and ...

2Apr

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Gita Ramjee, virologist

Gita Ramjee ‑ a Ugandan-South African scientist and researcher in HIV prevention – died of Covid-19 on 31 March 2020. In 2018, she was awarded the ‘Outstanding Female Scientist’ award from the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership. She died in Umhlanga, Durban, South Africa, from COVID-19 related complications. Gita Parekh was born on 8 April 1956 and grew up in Colonial Uganda before her family were driven into exile under Idi Amin in the 1970s. She attended high school in India before attending the University of Sunderland in England. She graduated in 1980 with a BSc (Hons) in Chemistry and Physiology. She married a South African-Indian fellow student, Praveen Ramjee, and moved to Durban where she bega...

2Apr

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James Gordon, House of Lords member

James Stuart Gordon, Baron Gordon of Strathblane ‑ a Scottish business executive and member of the House of Lords – died of coronavirus on 31 March 2020. A kinsman of the Marquess of Huntly, he was the son of James Gordon and Elsie née Riach. Gordon was educated at the St Aloysius' College, Glasgow and the University of Glasgow, where he graduated as a Master of Arts in Classics in 1958. Gordon worked as a political editor for STV between 1965 and 1973, and as managing director of Radio Clyde between 1973 and 1996. For Scottish Radio Holdings, Gordon was the Chief Executive from 1991 to 1996 and Chairman from 1996 to 2005; he was also Vice-Chairman of Melody Radio from 1991 to 1997, a director of Clydeport Holdings ...

2Apr

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Peter J. N. Sinclair, economist

Peter James Niven Sinclair, a British economist, passed away on 31 March 2020 after contracting Covid-19. He was Professor, and subsequently Emeritus Professor, in Economics at the University of Birmingham. Previously, he had been a fellow and tutor at Brasenose College, Oxford. Sinclair grew up in London and Norfolk and was educated at Gresham's School and the University of Oxford, where he gained his BA and doctorate. His first job was in the export department of Linde AG in Germany. This sharpened his lifelong interest in international economics. Peter Sinclair taught at Oxford from 1970 to 1994, mainly in economic theory, monetary policy and international economics, as fellow and tutor in Economics at Brasenose College. In 1994 he became...

1Apr

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Sister Sienna, septuagenarian nun

Sister Sienna died on April 1, 2020 Sister Sienna, a 73-year-old Indian member of the Missionaries of Charity in the United Kingdom, was admitted to Morriston Hospital in Swansea with complications of the viral infection and succumbed to the illness on April 1, 2020. The septuagenarian nun was working with the poor and destitute in Swansea, Wales, some 300 km west of London. She was involved in distributing food packets for those affected by the recent outbreak of coronavirus. A native of Jharkhand state in eastern India, Sister Sienna has served the community in North London until 2016. She was also active in the spiritual services of the Indian Catholic community. Matters India

1Apr

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Dr Hamza Pacheeri, Gynaecologist

Dr Hamza Pacheeri, 80, an Indian-born retired gynecologist from Birmingham Dr Hamza Pacheeri, 80, an Indian-born retired gynecologist from Birmingham in the United Kingdom, died from COVID-19 on April 1, 2020. Dr Hamza, a British national, was a native of Perinthalmanna in Kerala, India, and he graduated from Government Medical College in Kozhikode. He worked in several hospitals across the UK and was known as a very sociable and helpful person who would go to great lengths to help the community. Hamza was undergoing treatment for complications from coronavirus and died at City hospital in Birmingham on April 1, 2020.