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Couple married for 53 years dies while holding hands

27Jun

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Couple married for 53 years dies while holding hands

Together in life and together in death, a pair of high school sweethearts from Texas who had been married for 53 years died from coronavirus side-by-side, holding hands. Son Tim Tarpley says his parents, Curtis and Betty Tarpley, were both diagnosed with COVID-19 at the same time in June. His mother was admitted to Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital in Fort Worth shortly before his father, and she declined faster. “My mom called me and said, ‘Hey, I want to let you know I’m ready to go.’ And I yelled and screamed,” Tim Tarpley said. He then called his dad, who was on a different floor of the hospital. “He said, ‘How’s your mom?’ I said, ‘Well, she’s not good. She may not make it past tomorrow.’ It...

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....

25Jun

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Bhagwati Yadav, street vendor

Bhagwati Yadav ‑ a street-side vendor selling pani puris in India’s south Mumbai for nearly 46 years ‑ died of COVID-19 around a month ago. His death, however, came to light recently when residents of Napean Sea Road started a fundraising campaign to help the family of their beloved pani puri wala. Yadav was popularly known as "Bisleri pani puri wala" in and around south Mumbai for he used bottled water for preparing the popular snack. "For 46 years, Yadavji always put our health first by serving "Bisleri" pani puri. And his generosity knew no bounds as he would never shy away from handing out "Ek extra puri," a statement on the crowdsourcing platform Ketto read. The fundraising drive, aimed at collecting Rs5 lakh in 42 days, has a...

24Jun

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Carsyn Davis, teenager

Carsyn Davis ‑- a 17-year-old Fort Myers resident and a cancer survivor with a rare, ongoing autoimmune disorder ‑- died of respiratory failure after contracting the new coronavirus on June 23, 2020. The medical examiner's report notes that Davis attended a 100-person church event, where people were not required to wear face masks, roughly two weeks before she died in a Miami-Dade County hospital. During the nine days that followed, she was given antibiotics, hydroxychloroquine and oxygen via her grandfather's portable machine by her parents while at home. Her mother, Carole Brunton Davis, is a nurse. The hospital recommended intubation when Davis was admitted to its pediatric unit on June 19, but her parents declined the procedure, according to the county medi...

19Jun

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KP Sunil, driver

KP Sunil, who worked as a driver in the Excise Department, died of Covid infection on June 18, 2020 morning at Kannur government Medical College in Kerala. The 28-year-old was admitted with pneumonia and was put on ventilator support for the last three days. He later passed away after he tested positive for coronavirus. So far, 21 people have died of coronavirus in Kerala. According to health officials in Kannur, the deceased had worked as a driver in the Excise Office in Mattannur circle till June 12 and was admitted to a private hospital the same day and later shifted to the medical College on June 14. According to excise officials, the man was accompanying an accused who was taken into custody on June 3 and produced him for medical examination at the district hospital and visited a...

18Jun

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Mike Winkler, bus driver

Mike Winkler – a bus driver with the public transportation agency King County Metro Transit in Washington state ‑ died from complications related to COVID-19 on June 17. Winkler, 71, passed away after several weeks fighting the virus. His domestic partner Karla Mestl said he contracted COVID-19 in March. Winkler drove buses for 32 years and worked most of his career out of the North Base in Shoreline. Patch

Man dies after marriage, 111 guests test positive

16Jun

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Man dies after marriage, 111 guests test positive

A wedding ceremony in rural Patna on June 15, 2020, where the groom was running high fever and died two days after his wedding, with his body cremated without being tested for Covid-19, appears to have set off the biggest infection chain in Bihar so far, media reports quoted health department officials as saying. More than 100 people have tested positive in Paliganj sub-division of Patna district, about 55 km from the state capital, in the last few days, out of over 350 who have been tested upon contact tracing, they said. Fifteen of his relatives who attended the wedding tested positive for the contagion and apparently infected others, reported news agency PTI. The officials, who requested anonymity, said the groom was a software engineer based in Gurugram and had returned hom...

15Jun

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Magan Baraiya, policeman

Magan Baraiya – an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) in India’s Surat district – died on June 14, 2020, after he was discharged from New Civil Hospital (NCH) in Surat. The family of the first Covid-19 casualty of Surat police says no test was conducted on the deceased ASI before he was discharged from hospital, reported The Indian Express. Baraiya was deployed at Bhagal Cross road in Surat and was taken to NCH on May 30, after he reported fever, cough and cold. A Home Guard posted with Baraiya had tested positive and was undergoing treatment. Baraiya was also tested and his results came positive on May 31. He underwent treatment for 10 days and was discharged from the hospital on June 9. “We were happy, welcomed him back home, but maintained social dis...

11Jun

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Ompal Singh, school principal

Ompal Singh ‑ a principal at Government Boys Senior Secondary School in Delhi’s Kalyanpuri – succumbed to Covid-19 on June 11, 2020. The principal was deputed at a meal distribution centre since the anti-coronavirus lockdown began. Fifty-seven-year-old Ompal Singh was admitted to GTB Hospital on June 5. The vice-principal of the school, Shyam Lal, said: “Other members of Singh’s family have also been admitted to hospitals. Today morning, however, his son tested negative so he came and performed the last rites.” The Times of India