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Malik Ashtar, Nursing Staff
30Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
Medics, Pakistan, Profiles

Malik Ashtar, Nursing Staff

Malik Ashtar - a Nursing Staff, Gilgit, Pakistan – passed away after suffering from COVID-19 on March 29, 2020. Malik Ashtar was 55 years old. Malik Ashtar, a radiology lab worker from Nagar district, had contracted COVID-19 locally while working with affected patients. He was transferred to a quarantine center set up by the district administration after he showed symptoms. Around a hundred other Coronavirus patients who have recent travel history, mostly to Iran, have been kept in this quarantine center in Minapin, Nagar. The affected paramedic Malik Ashtar passed away four days after being shifted to this quarantine center in Nagar, Gilgit-Baltistan’s most hard-hit district. His burial took place in Nagar under tight security and only concerned personnel wer...
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Madhvi Aya, Physician Assistant
30Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
Medics, Profiles, United States

Madhvi Aya, Physician Assistant

Madhvi Aya – a Physician Assistant in Emergency Medicine at Woodhull Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York ‑ passed away on 29 March, 2020, due to COVID-19. Madhvi was 61 years old. Madhvi Aya, PA-C tragically passed away on March 29th, 2020 due to complications of Covid-19, at the age of 61. Madhvi proudly worked as a physician assistant in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Woodhull Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY for the past 12 years. She made great sacrifices working on the frontline for all of those years and during the current coronavirus pandemic. Despite the imminent risk involved and amidst a nationwide shortage of personal protective equipment, she continued to work courageously and tirelessly to help the community as much as she could, all while supporting he...
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Dr. Ghvont Mouradia, Thermal Doctor
30Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
Italy, Profiles

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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Ayla Balac, Nurse
30Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
Medics, Profiles

Ayla Balac, Nurse

Ayla Balac – a Registered Nurse in Istanbul, Turkey – passed away on March 29, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Source: Twitter Please help us in adding details.
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Beryl Bernay, journalist
30Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Beryl Bernay, journalist

Beryl Bernay (March 2, 1926 – March 29, 2020) was a journalist and children's television creator, as well as a painter, photographer, actor and fashion designer.   Bernay was born Beryl Bernstein in Brooklyn, New York. Her parents were Russian immigrants. Her father was a garment worker, and her mother, Sade, sold stockings and taught kindergarten. Her father changed the family name to Berney when Beryl was a child, but Beryl changed the spelling to Bernay when she reached adulthood.   Bernay took acting classes with Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof. She appeared on Broadway in Tonight in Samarkand in 1955 and later that year in ANTA's Paris production of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth with Helen Hayes and Mary Martin. She returned to Bro...
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Barbara Finch, Nurse
30Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
Medics, Profiles, United States

Barbara Finch, Nurse

Barbara Finch – a Licensed Practical Nurse at Southern Virginia Regional Medical Center, Emporia, Virginia – passed away on 29 March, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Barbara was 63years old. Source: Owen Funeral Home Please help us in adding details.
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Joe Diffie, singer
30Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Joe Diffie, singer

Joe Logan Diffie ‑ an American country music singer – succumbed to Covid-19 on March 29, 2020.   After working as a demo singer in the mid 1980s, he signed with Epic Records' Nashville division in 1990. Between then and 2004, Diffie charted 35 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, five of which peaked at number one: his debut release "Home", "If the Devil Danced (In Empty Pockets)", "Third Rock from the Sun", "Pickup Man" (his longest-lasting number-one song, at four weeks) and "Bigger Than the Beatles". In addition to these singles, he had 12 others reach the top 10 and ten more reach the top 40 on the same chart. He also co-wrote singles for Holly Dunn, Tim McGraw, and Jo Dee Messina, and recorded wi...
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Robert H. Garff, businessman & politician
30Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
High Profilers, Profiles, United States

Robert H. Garff, businessman & politician

Robert Heiner Garff ‑ an American businessman and politician who served as chair of the Ken Garff Automotive Group – died of Covid-19 on March 29, 2020.   He also served as the speaker of the Utah House of Representatives from 1985 to 1987.   Garff was born on September 15, 1942, the son of Marjorie Heiner and Kendall D. Garff. He attended the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1966 and an MBA in 1967.   The Ken Garff Automotive Group is a large car dealership conglomerate, founded in 1932 by Bob's father. The company or one of its dealerships, according to a January 2004 survey conducted by Dan Jones & Associates, was the second-most mentioned car dealership by Utahns ...
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