Saturday, May 4

Spain

Carlos Torres del Pozo, Family Doctor
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Carlos Torres del Pozo, Family Doctor

Carlos Torres del Pozo – a Family Doctor in Toledo, Spain – passed away on 27 May, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Carlos was 62 years old. The Official College of Physicians of Toledo has sent a note in which it joins the pain of family and friends and expresses its sincere condolences for the loss of another fellow colleague in this corporation: Dr. Carlos Torres del Pozo, 62, after 35 years of professional practice in the capital , where he had a private Family Medicine practice. The Board of Directors of the Official College of Physicians of Toledo "mourns the death of Dr. Carlos Torres and joins the pain of all the colleagues in the province in these moments of health alarm that are not being easy for the entire population, and especially , for health...
Leonardo Dante González Quirós, Physician
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Leonardo Dante González Quirós, Physician

Leonardo Dante González Quirós – a Physician at Residencia geriátrica "Virgen de la Sierra," Ciudad Real, Spain – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. Leonardo was 73 years old. Source: Medicos Y Pacientes Please help us in adding details.
Antonio González Pacheco, police officer
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Antonio González Pacheco, police officer

Antonio González Pacheco Antonio González Pacheco died on 7 May 2020 from COVID-19 in Spain at the age of 73. Pacheco, known also as Billy the Kid (Billy el Niño) was a Spanish police inspector in Francoist Spain who was charged with 13 counts of torture and sought for extradition by an Argentine judge in 2014. María Romilda Servini had called for the indictment. The request for extradition was refused by the Spanish High Court on the basis that the statute of limitations had run out on the accusation against him. He competed in a half-marathon in Madrid in 2010. He previously had a pension that was 1.5 times larger than the usual one and he had four medals of honour. A report from the Ministry of the Interior in 2018 revealed this. ‘That year interior minister Fernando Gra...
Princess Diana of Bourbon-Parma, aristocrat
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Princess Diana of Bourbon-Parma, aristocrat

Princess Diana Margherita of Bourbon-Parma ‑ a French aristocrat and member of the House of Bourbon-Parma, a cadet branch of the Spanish royal family – died of Covid-19 on 7 May 2020. She was the second royal to have reportedly died from COVID-19. Princess Diana was born in Paris on 22 May 1932 to Prince Gaetano of Bourbon-Parma, the youngest child of Robert I, Duke of Parma and Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal, and Princess Margarete von Thurn und Taxis, the youngest child of Prince Alessandro, 1st Duke of Castel Duino and Princess Marie de Ligne. On 15 March 1955 she married Prince Franz Josef Hubertus Maria Meinrad Michael of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, son of Frederick, Prince of Hohenzollern, in a civil ceremony London. They later had a Catholic ceremony on 16 A...
Miguel Ángel Troitiño Vinuesa, geographer
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Miguel Ángel Troitiño Vinuesa, geographer

Miguel Ángel Troitiño Vinuesa a Spanish geographer, professor of human geography at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) died of COVID-19 on 21 April 2020. He was an expert in cultural tourism and heritage preservation. Born in El Arenal, province of Ávila in 1947, Troitiño earned a licentiate degree in Geography and History from the UCM. He obtained a PhD in Geography in 1979 from the UCM, reading a dissertation on the city of Cuenca, titled Cuenca, la crisis de una vieja ciudad castellana and supervised by Manuel de Terán Álvarez. A lecturer at the UCM since 1973, he obtained a Chair of Human Geography in 1991. During his career, he focused on fields such as tourism, cultural heritage, urban planning and territorial development. A great deal of his scholar productio...
Francisco Luis García, Physician
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Francisco Luis García, Physician

Francisco Luis García – a Physician at Residencia Mixta de Personas Mayores, Linarez, Jaén, Spain – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 7 May 2020. Francisco was 61 years old. Source: SEN Please help us in adding details.
Manuel Barragan, General Practitioner
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Manuel Barragan, General Practitioner

Manuel Barragan – a General Practitioner in Cordoba, Spain – passed away due to COVID-19. He was 63 years old. Community Medicine practitioner who was consulting at the Levante-Sur Health Center in Córdoba city. This doctor had been admitted to the ICU of the Reina Sofía Hospital in Córdoba due to pneumonia caused by the coronavirus. Source: Redaccion Medica Please help us in adding details.
África Lorente Castillo, politician & activist
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África Lorente Castillo, politician & activist

África Lorente Castillo was a Moroccan-born Spanish politician and activist died of COVID-19 on 1 May 2020 in Castelldefels, aged 65 She was born in Tangier, Morocco, then Spanish protectorate. She was a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party. She was a member of the Catalan Parliament from 1984 to 1988. From 1987 to 2003, she was Deputy Mayor of Castelldefels.
Pedro Marin Esquirol, Emergency Medicine Doctor
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Pedro Marin Esquirol, Emergency Medicine Doctor

  Pedro Marin Esquirol – an Emergency Medicine Doctor, Neurosurgeon at Hospital San Juan de la Cruz, Úbeda, Spain – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 30 April 2020. Pedro was 47 years old.  "How unfair life is, that made him come from so far to a lost regional hospital in Spain, to end up like this damn virus," commented a colleague shortly after hearing the news. Source: IDEAL UBEDA Please help us in adding details.