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Italy

Dr. Ghvont Mouradia, Thermal Doctor
30Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
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Dr. Ghvont Mouradia, Thermal Doctor

Dr. Ghvont Mouradia, 61, a Syrian-Armenian doctor who specialized in alternative medicine, passed away after suffering from Covid-19 in Italy on March 29, 2020. He was known by his nickname Revont. Besides practising modern medicine, he also specialised in acupuncture and hydrotherapy. Mouradian was born to an Armenian family in Qamishli, northern Syria, where he spent his childhood. He moved to India to study gynaecology and in 1987, travelled to Italy to specialise in medical hydrology at the University of Pavia. He became a respected thermal doctor in Salsomaggiore, a city in northern Italy known for its healing thermal baths, where he kept caring for his patients until the lockdown was enforced. Mouradian’s relatives, split between Syria and Lebanon, were deeply saddened...
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Angelo Rottoli, boxer
30Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
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Angelo Rottoli, boxer

Angelo Rottoli ‑ an Italian professional boxer – succumbed to Covid-19 on 29 March 2020.   He held the European cruiserweight title in 1989 and challenged once for the WBC cruiserweight title in 1987.   Rottoli died at the age of 61 after contracting the coronavirus.
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Maurizio Galderisi, Cardiologist
28Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
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Maurizio Galderisi, Cardiologist

Maurizio Galderisi – a Cardiologist and a Professor of Internal Medicine at the Federico II University of Naples, Italy – passed away on 27 March, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Galderisi was 65 years old. Source: Fnomceo Please help us in adding details.
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Norman Jones, Cardiologist
28Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
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Norman Jones, Cardiologist

Norman Jones – a Cardiologist, Former Cardiology Chief of the Trabattoni-Ronzoni Rehabilitation Center in Seregno, Como, Italy – passed away on 27 March, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Norman was 72 years old. Source: FNOMCEO Please help us in adding details.
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Anna Maria Focarete, Councillor
28Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
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Anna Maria Focarete, Councillor

Anna Maria Focarete – a Provincial Councilor FIMMG, SIMG President and Former Councilor Prov. of the Medici in Lecco, Italy – passed away on 27 March, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Anna was 69years old. Source: Fnomceo Please help us in adding details.
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Luigi Roni, singer
27Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
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Luigi Roni, singer

Luigi Roni –an Italian singer – succumbed to coronavirus on 26 March 2020.   Roni studied singing in Lucca alongside Adriana Pizzorusso. He made his singing debut at age 22 at the Spoleto Festival USA with the opera Faust, in which he played Mephistopheles. His singing partners included Montserrat Caballé, Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and José Carreras. He sang at multiple opera halls, including La Scala, the Vienna State Opera, and the Metropolitan Opera House. In France, he performed alongside other opera singers at the Chorégies d'Orange and at the Paris Opera. In 2004, Roni founded the Il Serchio delle muse summer opera festival, held in the Serchio valley.   Roni's final role was in April 2019, when he ...
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