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21Jun

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Tapu Mishra, singer

Famous Odiya singer Tapu Mishra passed away due to post-COVID complications in Bhubaneshwar, family sources said on June 20. She was 36. The singer, who breathed her last on the night of June 19 at a private hospital in the Odisha’s capital, was put on ventilator support two days ago after her oxygen level dropped to 45. The lungs of Tapu, who was admitted on May 19, also suffered extensive damages The Ministry of Culture sanctioned ₹1,00,000 for her treatment from the Artiste Welfare Fund as her family members planned to shift her to Kolkata for an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) treatment, sources said. The Odiya film industry, or Ollywood, also started raising funds for the treatment of Tapu, who debuted in Odiya film Kulanandan. Tapu, who had lent her voi...

8Jul

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News, Profiles, United States

David John Reed, murder convict

David John Reed ‑ a death-row inmate who was convicted in Riverside County of first-degree murder ‑ died from apparent coronavirus complications on July 7, 2020. David John Reed, 60, had been on California's death row since 2011 and was imprisoned at San Quentin State Prison where a COVID-19 outbreak is ongoing. Reed died outside hospital, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. An exact cause of death has not yet been determined, although the CDCR reported Reed died "from what appear to be complications related to COVID-19." Reed was sentenced to death in October 2011 for the murder of Ricky Mosley in a racially motivated attack near a Palm Springs restaurant. Patch.com

5Jul

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Mahender Yadav, politician

Mahender Yadav -- a former MLA serving jail sentence in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case died due to COVID-19 at a hospital in the Indian state of Delhi, officials reportedly said on July 5, 2020. He was the second inmate of Mandoli prison to have succumbed to the infection, news agency PTI quoted officials as saying. Yadav, 70, was a former MLA from Palam constituency. He was lodged in Jail no. 14 of Mandoli prison, where he was undergoing a sentence of 10 years, and had been hospitalised on June 26, they said. Director General (Prisons) Sandeep Goel said that Yadav complained of uneasiness and some heart related problems on June 26. He was taken to DDU hospital, from where he was referred to LNJP hospital the same day and admitted there. Later, on his family’s request, he was allowed to ...

4Jul

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Scott Erskine, serial killer

Scott Thomas Erskine ‑ an American serial killer on California's death row, convicted in 2003 for the 1993 murder of two California boys – died from Covid-19 on July 3, 2020. He was incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison. Erskine grew up in southern California. When he was five years old, Erskine darted into traffic on the Pacific Coast Highway in Long Beach and was hit by a station wagon. He remained in a coma for 60 hours. Although physically he appeared recovered, he frequently complained to his mother about headaches, and he experienced "black-out" moments where he could not remember what he was last doing. At the age of 10, he started molesting his 6-year-old sister, forcing her to perform oral sex upon him. He soon began abusing her friends, threa...

The New York Times’ tribute to US victims of Covid-19

24May

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The New York Times’ tribute to US victims of Covid-19

As the Covid-19 death toll nears 100,000 victims in the United States, The New York Times listed 1,000 people’s names on its front page in May 24 edition. The newspaper’s first two pages display a sprawling list of obituaries that represent only 1% of the nearly 100,000 deaths. The entries list victims’ names, ages, where they were from and sometimes their job, a hobby they enjoyed or a fact about them. “Numbers alone cannot possibly measure the impact of the coronavirus on America, whether it is the numbers of patients treated, jobs interrupted or lives cut short. As the country nears a grim milestone of 100,000 deaths attributed to the virus, The New York Times scoured obituaries and death notices of the victims. The 1,000 people here reflect just 1 percent of of the...

Britain now has the highest Covid-19 deaths in Europe

7May

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Britain now has the highest Covid-19 deaths in Europe

There have been 29,427 deaths recorded across the UK The United Kingdom now has the highest number of coronavirus deaths in Europe, BBC quoted the latest government figures as suggesting. There have been 29,427 deaths recorded across the UK - a figure Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said was "a massive tragedy". The latest total for Italy, previously the highest in Europe, now stands at 29,315. But experts say it could be months before full global comparisons can be made. Both Italy and the UK record the deaths of people who have tested positive for coronavirus. BBC head of statistics Robert Cuffe said Britain reached this figure faster in its epidemic than Italy. But he said there are caveats in making such a comparison, including the UK population being about 10% lar...

Vaccine for Covid-19 unlikely time, say experts

5May

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Vaccine for Covid-19 unlikely time, say experts

Leading health experts have warned scientists may not be able to develop a vaccine against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) at all and pointed that it has happened before in case of HIV and dengue among others, a report has said. More than 100 vaccines are currently under pre-clinical trials and a couple of those have entered the human trial stage—at Oxford University in England made from a chimpanzee virus and in the US for a different vaccine produced by Moderna. “There are some viruses that we still do not have vaccines against,” Dr David Nabarro, a professor of global health at Imperial College London, was quoted as saying by CNN on Sunday. “We can’t make an absolute assumption that a vaccine will appear at all, or if it does appear, whether it will pass all the tests o...