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8May

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Medics, Profiles, United Kingdom

John Alagos

John Alagos, 23, is the youngest nurse known to have succumbed to coronavirus. He collapsed and died at home after an exhausting 12-hour shift treating Covid-19 patients at Watford General Hospital. His mother, Gina Gustilo, 50, claimed he had fallen ill at work but was not allowed to go home because his ward was so short-staffed. She also said her son had not been wearing the right protective clothing at work. Alagos returned home from a night shift on April 3, saying he had been suffering with a headache and high temperature throughout the night. Mrs Gustilo told the Mail on Sunday: “I asked â€˜Why didn’t you come home?’ He said he had asked other staff but they said they were short of staff and they did not let him go. “I said, â€˜OK, take some paracetamol.’ After a few m...

8May

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Pooja Sharma, Pharmacist

Pharmacist Pooja Sharma, 33, died a day after her father â€“ both passing away from coronavirus. Ms Sharma, who worked at the Eastbourne District General Hospital in East Sussex, was admitted to intensive care three days before she died. Paying tribute to their friend, Mr Sharma’s loved ones said her laugh was “contagious” and that she gave her friends “nothing but love, support and a tummy ache with all the laughter.” The Telegraph

8May

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Robert Mandell, conductor

Robert Mandell an American-born British-based conductor, particularly noted in the United Kingdom for his popular family and children's concerts, and stage musicals died in Leicester in April 2020 at the age of 90. He had been admitted to hospital following a fall and had tested positive for COVID-19. Robert Mandell was born in New York City in August 1929, and was the youngest of four children. At the age of eight, Robert acted on the stage and in radio shows under the professional names Bobby Lee and Robert Lee. He worked on noted American radio shows such as Let’s Pretend and Ellery Queen. His Broadway stage credits include the original season of Lady in the Dark with Gertrude Lawrence. Mandell played Tad Lincoln in Yours, A. Lincoln, starring Vincent Price. Mandell began h...

7May

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India, Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Gulshan Ewing, iconic editor

Gulshan Ewing's daughter says Gregory Peck was her favourite Hollywood star- BBC & Anjali Gulshan Ewing, a pioneering Indian journalist who mingled with some of the world's most famous celebrities, died on April 18, 2020, after suffering from Covid-19 at a home for the elderly in London. Gulshan Ewing was 92 when she died in residential care in Richmond, BBC quoted her daughter Anjali Ewing as saying. "I was right by her side when she stopped breathing." Despite her age, her mother had no pre-existing conditions, she says. Ewing, who edited two of India's most popular publications - women's magazine Eve's Weekly and film magazine Star & Style - from 1966 to 1989 was a celebrated editor, and a celebrity in her own right. In his book India: A million mutinies now, Nob...

7May

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Medics, Pakistan, Profiles, United Kingdom

Dr Tariq Shafi, haematologist

Dr Tariq Shafi ‑ a British Pakistani cancer consultant ‑ succumbed to Covid-19 on May 6, 2020. Dr. Shafi was the lead consultant for haematology at Darent Valley Hospital in Dartford. He routinely volunteered his time and spoke frequently at Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre in Pakistan. Dr. Shafi attended Cadet College Hasan Abdal, and received his Bachelor of Medicine from King Edward Medical University in Lahore, Pakistan in 1984. Dr. Shafi continued to assist his patients over the phone after he himself had been diagnosed and was placed under quarantine. Dr. Tariq Shafi lost his life to coronavirus disease 2019 on May 6, 2020. . He is believed to be the first doctor and sixth health care worker from Kent to di...

5May

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Tim Brooke-Taylor, Comedian

British performer Tim Brooke-Taylor, a member of comedy trio the Goodies, died after contracting the new coronavirus. He was 79. Brooke-Taylor’s agent says he died the morning of April 12 “from COVID-19.” Brooke-Taylor was part of Cambridge University’s Footlights revue, the breeding ground of several generations of British comic talent. He broke into radio and television comedy in the 1960s alongside future Monty Python members John Cleese and Graham Chapman. Brooke-Taylor went on to form The Goodies with Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie. The trio specialized in slightly surreal sketches incorporating visual inventiveness, slapstick and songs. Their song Funky Gibbon even became a U.K. top 10 chart hit in 1975. Their TV show, which ran throughout the 1970s, was a hit in Brita...

Richard Coram, Dubai TV and radio presenter

5May

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Richard Coram, Dubai TV and radio presenter

Richard Coram, Dubai TV and radio presenter; Pix credit Gulf Business Former media person Richard Coram, who was popular through his radio shows and news anchoring in Dubai-based media, died of Covid-19 in the UK. Barely in his late 50s, the long-term Gulf resident and former radio show host on Dubai FM92, was also a celebrated news reader on the city's popular Channel 33. Coram and his wife Padma had also launched an event management firm, Talent Brokers. It's said, the company brought large-scale concerts and shows to the UAE, including Lionel Richie, Elton John and Rod Stewart. As a broadcaster he is remembered as someone who just had that natural ability and was warm and likeable. Both Coram, along with his wife Padma, were socially well-known, pioneering the live enter...

Eleuterio Gibela, Domestic Services Worker

5May

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Eleuterio Gibela, Domestic Services Worker

Eleuterio Gibela – a Domestic Services Worker, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust, Blackpool, England – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on May 5, 2020. Gibela was 68 years old. Source: BBC Please help us in adding details.

5May

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Saad Al-Dubbaisi, General Practitioner

Saad Al-Dubbaisi – a General Practitioner at Garden City Medical Centre, Holcombe Brook, England – passed away on 4 May 2020, due to COVID-19. Dr Jeff Schryer, local GP and Chair of NHS Bury Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) had said: “It is with great sadness to hear the news that one of our GPs in Bury, Dr. Saad Al-Dubbaisi, has sadly passed away after being very poorly for a number of weeks. “Dr. Al-Dubbaisi, was a much loved, compassionate and experienced GP from Garden City Medical Centre. He lived and worked in Bury, and was a popular and caring member of our General Practice community. Dr. Al-Dubbaisi cared for generations of the same families from his Practice in Holcombe Brook for many years, he will be sorely missed by his work family and pati...

4May

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Dr. Edmond Adedeji, United Kingdom

Dr. Edmond Adedeji, 62, Emergency Medicine Physician, Great Western Hospital, England Dr. Edmond Adedeji, 62, a doctor in the Emergency Department at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon, Wiltshire, United Kingdom, died in the intensive care unit of the hospital in which he worked after testing positive for the coronavirus on April 8, 2020. Great Western Hospital in Swindon, Wiltshire, described the 62-year-old as a “respected and well-liked member of the team”. In a statement, his family said: “We as a family are grateful to God for the life of Dr Edmond Adefolu Adedeji. “He died doing a job he loved, serving others before himself. “We would like to thank the staff and his colleagues for looking after him during his final days. “He leaves behind a wife, three children ...