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3Jul

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Abhishek Bhayana, dental surgeon

Dr Abhishek Bhayana ‑ a junior resident doctor at Delhi’s Maulana Azad Institute for Dental Sciences (MAIDS) –suspected to have succumbed to Covid-19 on July 2, 2020. “I am having breathing issues. All my symptoms are of corona… I will be 100% positive,” said Dr Abhishek Bhayana (26) to his elder brother Aman (31) on July2, 2020, morning, hours before he passed away following complaints of chest congestion and breathlessness. He had tested negative twice for Covid-19. Abhishek was posted in the department of oral surgery of the dental institute. He secured rank 21 in the AIIMS MDS exam, and travelled to Rohtak on June 26 to appear for counselling. Abhishek’s family performed his last rites in the afternoon of July 3, 2020. His friends and colleagues remember him as a doctor with unma...

1Jul

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Sanjeev Kumar Yadav, police inspector

Sanjeev Kumar Yadav ‑ a 49-year-old inspector of Delhi Police who was posted with special cell ‑ died at South Delhi’s Max hospital the night of June 30, 2020, due to COVID-19. “Sanjeev Kumar Yadav had been admitted to Max Hospital after testing positive around 15 days ago. He developed fever and was on ventilator after complaining of breathlessness,” a senior police officer said. Yadav was posted with the south-western range of special cell and received the Police Medal for gallantry this year. He was earlier posted with Crime Branch and Tughlaq Road police station. He hailed from Uttar Pradesh and is survived by his wife, who was also hospitalised after she was tested positive and two children in East Delhi’s Laxmi Nagar. The Indian Express

30Jun

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Davinder Pal Singh, TV news anchor

Davinder Pal Singh ‑ a 43-year-old senior journalist with the PTC Punjabi TV channel who had tested positive for Covid-19 ‑died in a private hospital on June 20, 2020. Singh, a resident of Phase-10, was suffering from post renal transplant complications when he was hospitalised on June 13 after testing positive for Covid-19. However, even though he was released after recovery, Davinder Pal Singh was admitted to hospital again on June 29, 2020 after a cardiac arrest, and died the next day. The administration has counted him among Covid-19 fatalities. Mohali civil surgeon Dr Manjit Singh said the journalist was cremated as per protocol under the observation of health officials. “We will collect the samples of his family members and will also trace his contacts,&rdq...

29Jun

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Sanjay Dobal, cricketer

Sanjay Dobal, a well-known club cricketer and former Delhi U-23 support staff, died on the morning of June 29, 2020, after failing to recover from COVID-19 infection. Dobal was 53 years old and is survived by his wife and two sons - elder Siddhant, who plays first-class cricket for Rajasthan and younger Ekansh, who made his debut for Delhi U-23 side. Dobal was suffering from severe pneumonia and had to go through four tests and only after three weeks did he test positive for the coronavirus, reported India Today. "Sanjay Dobal's untimely death is devastating news for the cricketing world," Vinod Tihara, DDCA Secretary said in a statement. "On behalf of the DDCA, I extend our sincere and heartfelt condolences on the irreparable loss. Our thoughts and prayers are with the grieving family...

29Jun

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Captain Harry Subramaniam, seafarer

Captain Harry Subramaniam, one of the most influential people in Indian seafarer training circles, died on June 29, 2020. from Covid-19. Tributes have been paid all day to Captain Harry Subramaniam, whose eight books on seafaring served as a cornerstone in Indian maritime education for decades. Subramaniam was born in 1942 in Ootacamund in the Nilagiri Hills of south India. He went to sea for much of the 1960s, before returning ashore determined to shake up the maritime education scene. During Subramaniam’s early days as a lecturer at the L.B.S. Nautical College, his mother, Vijaya, saw his dismay as he had to refer to one book for instruments, another for coding and decoding weather reports, another for tropical meteorology and yet another for temperate latitude weather, all just to t...

28Jun

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Dr Sayeed Ahmad Ali, Unani practitioner

Dr Sayeed Ahmad Ali, a Noida resident and a Unani practitioner, died on June 28, from coronavirus complications. He was admitted at Fortis Hospital, Noida, on June 7 and was kept on ventilator for 15 days, according to hospital authorities and close relatives of the victim. The hospital has given a bill of over Rs14 lakh to the kin of a Covid victim who was admitted at the facility for 20 days. The Gautam Budh Nagar district administration has said that it will look into the matter. The family took possession of the body on June 29 against a legal declaration on a Rs10 stamp paper to pay the negotiated amount, one of the relatives said. The hospital gave a bill of over Rs14 lakh to the grieving family, which was later revised to Rs10.2 lakh after the insurance covered Rs4...

28Jun

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Dr Aseem Gupta, anaesthetist

Dr Aseem Gupta ‑ an anaesthetist in the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash hospital that has been declared a COVID-19 hospital – succumbed to Covid-19 on the morning of June 28, 2020. The 56-year-old doctor was being treated at Max hospital in Saket for past two weeks. His condition deteriorated late on Saturday (June 27, 2020) and he died few hours later, NDTV quote officials as saying. Dr Gupta is survived by his wife and two sons. His wife had also got infected with COVID-19 but she recovered a few days ago. One of his son is pursuing graduation in Engineering, while the other is a studying medicine. NDTV

28Jun

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Dr Lokesh Gupta, general physician

Dr Lokesh Gupta ‑ a 60-year-old general physician who ran his own clinic in Gautam Budh Nagar’s Dadri ‑ succumbed to Covid-19 the morning of June 28, 2020. Dr Lokesh Gupta was rushed to Yashoda Hospital in Ghaziabad’s Nehru Nagar on June 22, 2020, and his Covid-19 result came positive on June 24, 2020. Dr Sangeeta Garg, medical superintendent of Yashoda Hospital, said, “Dr Lokesh came to the hospital on June 22 afternoon with high-grade fever, breathlessness and cyanosis (blue skin due to lack of oxygen). His Covid-19 test was done and his test result came positive. At 9.59 am Sunday (June 28, 2020), he passed away.” Dr Lokesh studied medicine at S N Medical College, Agra, and is survived by his wife, and their two children. The couple’s daughte...

Dying COVID-19 patient slams hospital’s negligence

26Jun

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Dying COVID-19 patient slams hospital’s negligence

A selfie video of 34-year-old V Ravi Kumar, who succumbed to Covid-19 at a government hospital in Hyderabad, alleges that he was not given oxygen support even after he complained of breathlessness, media reports said. The incident that took place on June 26, 2020 and the video had surfaced on social media and by June 28, 2020, had sparked outrage among social media users, reported ANI. In the selfie video the man is heard saying that he is struggling to breathe as his ventilator had been removed. “They have removed ventilator and have not been responding to my plea for the last three hours to provide oxygen support. My heart has stopped and only lungs are working, but I am unable to breathe, daddy. Bye daddy. Bye all, bye daddy," the man said in the short video selfie, which he had sen...

Couple dies from Covid-19 within 4 days of each other

26Jun

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Couple dies from Covid-19 within 4 days of each other

A Thane couple succumbed to Covid-19 within four days of each other. Shabana Banu (43) died on June 26, four days after her husband Usman Badshah Shaikh’s death in Kalsekar hospital in Kausa. Their family claims when they refused to take away her body suspecting medical negligence, the hospital offered them Rs 5,000. The couple suffered from low oxygen saturation levels. The hospital has been facing issues with regular oxygen supply since several days. On Monday, it was forced to cut down bed strength from 126 to 70 to compensate for lack of oxygen. Most Covid-19 patients require high pressure oxygen support. The couple’s 17-year-old son, who was in Pune since the lockdown began in March, returned after his father’s death on June 22. “He has gone silent....