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Profiles

Nahdezhda Divak, Nurse
5Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
Medics, Profiles, Russia

Nahdezhda Divak, Nurse

Nahdezhda Divak – a Nurse at Regional Clinical Hospital, Kaliningrad, Russia – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 5 March 2020. Nahdezhda was 65 years old. For more than 20 years, Nadezhda Aleksandrovna worked with the department of pulmonology. Her colleagues and patients loved and respected her. One of the first, she fearlessly went to the aid of patients with suspected coronavirus, nursed them, regardless of either time or imminent danger. But, helping others, alas, did not save herself, and in this battle the disease turned out to be stronger. The hospital lost a wonderful selfless person, a professional in her field, a mentor to young people, and her family lost a beautiful wife, mother and grandmother. Source: Informed39 Please he...
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Mohammad Mirmohammadi, politician
3Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
High Profilers, Iran, Profiles

Mohammad Mirmohammadi, politician

Seyyed Mohammad Mirmohammadi –an Iranian politician who served as the senior adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and a member of Expediency Discernment Council – died due to coronavirus on 2 March 2020. He was the member of the 6th and 7th Iranian parliaments for Qom. Mohammad was a member of the central council of the Islamic Republic Party, presidential chief of staff during the presidencies of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, and secretary general of the Islamic Civilization Party. Mirmohammadi was born in Qom, Iran, in 1948. Mousa Shubairi Zanjani, a senior cleric, was his uncle. Mirmohammadi was appointed a member of the Expediency Discernment Council in August 2017. Mirmohammadi died from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on 2 March 2020...
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Jiang Xueqing, Surgeon
2Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
China, Medics, Profiles

Jiang Xueqing, Surgeon

Jiang Xueqing – a Head of Thyroid and Breast Surgery at Wuhan Central Hospital, Wuhan, China – passed away on 1 March, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Jiang was 55 years old. Source: SCMP Please help us in adding details.
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Mohammad Ali Ramazani Dastak, politician
1Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
High Profilers, Iran, Profiles

Mohammad Ali Ramazani Dastak, politician

Mohammad Ali Ramazani Dastak ‑ an Iranian politician who was elected to the Iranian Parliament in the 2020 election – reportedly died from Covid-19 complications on 29 February 2020. He also fought in the Iran–Iraq War. The cause of his death is disputed. The Iranian health ministry say it was due to influenza while other sources, including the BBC, had reported that he died from novel coronavirus.
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Hadi Khosroshahi, cleric & diplomat
28Feb By Web TeamNo Comments
Iran, Noteworthy, Profiles

Hadi Khosroshahi, cleric & diplomat

Seyyed Hadi Khosroshahi –an Iranian cleric and diplomat who served as the first Iranian Ambassador to the Vatican – died  from Covid-19 on 27 February 2020. When he was 15 years old, Khosroshahi joined the leader of militant Fada'iyan-e Islam (Devotees of Islam), Sayyid Mojtaba Mir-Lohi, nicknamed Navvab Safavi. He was close to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood. Based on his interviews, in at least two cases, he sought Khomeini's approval for the assassination of the Islamic Republic's first President, Abolhassan Bani Sadr and Iran's last Queen Farah Pahlavi, both living in exile in Paris. Khomeini rejected the idea, Khosroshahi maintained. Khosroshahi was a prominent figure in the Qom Seminary and was a representative of Ayatollah Khomeini in the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance afte...
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Ke Huibing, management scientist
21Feb By Web TeamNo Comments
China, Noteworthy, Profiles

Ke Huibing, management scientist

Ke Huibing ‑ a Chinese management scientist, professor and doctoral advisor at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology – succumbed to Covid-19 on 19 February 2020.   Ke was educated at Law School of Hubei University, majoring in law, where he graduated in June 2002 and obtained a bachelor's degree. In June 2005, he graduated from the School of Sociology of Huazhong University of Science and Technology with a doctor's degree in management. In June 2008, he obtained a doctor's degree in management in Wuhan University Social Security Research Center. Since July 2008, he was a teacher of management science at the School of Social Sciences of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. His professional direction was social security theory and poli...
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Liu Zhiming, hospital director
20Feb By Web TeamNo Comments
China, Medics, Profiles

Liu Zhiming, hospital director

Liu Zhiming, director of Wuhan Wuchang Hospital, died of the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, on Tuesday morning, Feb. 18, The Associated Press citing the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission reported.   A notice from the commission said Liu took part in the battle against the deadly virus from the start and made “important contributions in the work of fighting and controlling novel coronavirus.”   During that process, “unfortunately he became infected and passed away at 10:54 Tuesday morning at the age of 51 after all-out efforts to save him failed,” the notice said.
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Liu Fan, Nurse
19Feb By Web TeamNo Comments
China, Medics, Profiles

Liu Fan, Nurse

Liu Fan – a Nurse at Wuchang Hospital in Wuhan, China – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 18 February 2020. Liu was 59 years old. Source: The Scientist Please help us in adding details.
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