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Profiles

Justa Barrios, home care worker
3May By Web TeamNo Comments
Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Justa Barrios, home care worker

Justa Barrios ‑ a home care worker and labor organizer who worked with the Ain't I A Woman? campaign, a coalition of professional caregivers, against the 24-hour workday and the National Mobilization Against Sweatshops (NMASS), a grassroots labor organization ‑ died from Covid-19 on May 2, 2020.   Barrios was a home care worker for 18 years and notably worked 24-hour shifts for over 14 years, five days a week. She developed severe asthma and heart problems as a result. On May 2, 2020, the Aint I A Woman? campaign reported that Barrios had died of COVID-19. Barrios was working to distribute Personal Protective Equipment to home care workers throughout New York City shortly before she contracted COVID-19.   Barrios worked with the Ain't I A Woman? campaign...
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Ralph McGehee, spy
3May By Web TeamNo Comments
Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Ralph McGehee, spy

Ralph Walter McGehee –who served for 25 years in American intelligence, being a case officer of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) – died on May 2, 2020 from Covid-19.   From 1953 to 1972, his assignments were in East Asia and Southeast Asia, where he held administrative posts. Since leaving intelligence work in 1977, he publicly expressed views highly critical of the CIA.   McGehee was born in 1928 at Moline, Illinois. His father, originally from Kentwood, Louisiana, where his family had lived for three generations, was of Scotch-Irish descent, and had moved to Illinois when a teenager. His mother was from neighboring Osyka, Mississippi. Along with his older sister, they then had moved from Moline to Chicago about 1930. While a student at Tilden ...
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Munir Mangal, militaryman
3May By Web TeamNo Comments
Afghanistan, Noteworthy, Profiles

Munir Mangal, militaryman

Munir Mohamad Mangal ‑ an Afghan general whose professional military career spanned more than 40 years – passed away on May 2, 2020 after contracting Covid-19.   Mangal served in high-level military and government positions, most latterly as the Commander of the Afghan National Police, before his retirement in 2016.   Mangal was born in Samkanay District, Paktia Province, Afghanistan, in 1950. He was sent to Kabul, where he attended primary and military school. Mangal then went to the Soviet Union, where he completed a master's degree in military affairs.   In 1972, Mangal began his professional military career as a lieutenant in a Kabul-based artillery division. He rose to serve in both military positions under several Afghan governments ov...
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Ray Lever, Hospital Staff
3May By Web TeamNo Comments
Neighbors, Profiles, United Kingdom

Ray Lever, Hospital Staff

Ray Lever, 62, a Hospital Staff and a Domestic Services Assistant, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, England – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 3 May 2020. Ray was 62 years old. Ray Lever, 62, a domestic services assistant at Sheffield's Northern General Hospital, was a "credit to the NHS", the trust said. Source: BBC Please help us in adding details.
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Cipriano Magaña Arias, Porter
3May By Web TeamNo Comments
Mexico, Neighbors, Profiles

Cipriano Magaña Arias, Porter

Cipriano Magaña Arias – a Porter/Transporter at Centro de Especialidades Medicas ISSET de la ceiba, Villahermosa, Mexico – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on 2 May 2020. Source: Facebook Please help us in adding details.
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Jim Henderson, politician
3May By Web TeamNo Comments
High Profilers, Profiles

Jim Henderson, politician

Donald James "Jim" Henderson ‑ a Canadian politician who served as a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1985 to 1995 – succumbed to coronavirus on May 2, 2020. He represented the ridings of Humber and Etobicoke—Humber. Henderson was educated at the University of Toronto, the University of Western Ontario, Johns Hopkins University, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He worked as a physician, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, Director of Psychiatry at the Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital in Toronto and the Royal Victoria Hospital in Barrie before entering political life, and served as an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry, and Psychiatrist in Chief for ...
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