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Heherson “Sonny” Turingan Alvarez, politician
21Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
High Profilers, Philippines, Profiles

Heherson “Sonny” Turingan Alvarez, politician

Heherson "Sonny" Turingan Alvarez a politician from the Philippines – died on April 20, 2020 due to complications from COVID-19. He served as a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines and the Senate of the Philippines. He was also Minister (then Secretary) of Agrarian Reform from 1986 to 1987 and Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources from 2001 to 2002. He was a young activist who participated in the 1971 constitutional convention. He refused to sign the Ferdinand Marcos regime backed constitution that gave extensions to the president's term in office. He fled with his family to the US leaving the Philippines behind as martial law took its toll on opposition activists. While in exile, he was one of the organizers of the Free Philippines movement that s...
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Alexander Kuzmich Vustin, composer
21Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Noteworthy, Profiles, Russia

Alexander Kuzmich Vustin, composer

Alexander Kuzmich Vustin a Russian composer died in Moscow on 19 April 2020 from pneumonia, or COVID-19. His works, including the opera The Devil in Love, were played and recorded internationally. Vustin studied composition first with Grigory Frid at a regional music college, and later with Vladimir Ferè at the Moscow Conservatory, graduating in 1969. Between 1969 and 1974, Vustin worked as a music editor at USSR Radio. From 1974 he worked as an editor at the Kompozitor publishing house. Vustin composed from 1963, but regarded only works written since 1972 as valid. His musical language is distinctive by the remarkable organization of its musical texture. Vustin uses the twelve-tone technique, but in his own original way. His first notable compositions were written in the mid...
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HG Carrillo, writer
21Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

HG Carrillo, writer

Herman "HG" Carrillo ‑ an American writer and Assistant Professor of English at George Washington University in Washington, DC – contracted Covid-19 and died on April 20, 2020. In the 1990s, he began writing as "H. G. Carrillo", and he eventually adopted that identity in his private life as well, claiming to have been a Cuban immigrant who had left Cuba with his family at the age of 7. Carrillo wrote frequently about the Cuban immigrant experience in the United States, including in his only novel, Loosing My Espanish (2004). Carrillo kept his true identity hidden from even close acquaintances, including his husband, whom he married in 2015. Only after his death did the true details of his life become publicly known, after several members of his family ...
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Felicia Ailende, Nurse
21Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Medics, Profiles, United States

Felicia Ailende, Nurse

Felicia Ailende – a Registered Nurse at BRIA of Forest Edge, Chicago, Illinois – passed away due to COVID-19 on 20 April,2020. Ailende was 67 years old. Source: Kosary Funeral Home Please help us in adding details.
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Evandro Barbosa, Nurse
21Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Brazil, Medics, Profiles

Evandro Barbosa, Nurse

Evandro Barbosa – a Nurse at  Hospital Getúlio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – passed away after uffering from COVID-19. Evandro was 55 years old. It was reported on April 21, 2020. As a nurse at the Getúlio Vargas Hospital, located in the Penha neighborhood, in the north of Rio, he worked on the front line of the unit. Source: UOL Please help us in adding details.
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Ade Dickson, Mental Health Nurse
21Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Medics, Profiles, United Kingdom

Ade Dickson, Mental Health Nurse

Ade Dickson – a Mental Health Nurse at Barnet Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team, London, England – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on April 21, 2020. Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust in London, which announced his death, said: ‘Ade was a highly respected colleague who will be deeply missed by his family, friends, trust staff and patients.’ Source: Nursing Standard Please help us in adding details.
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Muhanad Noward Eltayib, Cardiologist
21Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Medics, Profiles, United Kingdom

Muhanad Noward Eltayib, Cardiologist

Muhanad Noward Eltayib – a Cardiologist at Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. Muhanad was 36 years old. Muhanad Noward Eltayib worked as a registrar at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Northern Ireland and had been self isolating with flu-like symptoms before his death, says a doctor who knew him. It is understood the 36-year-old's dad raised the alarm with a friend of Muhanad's after being unable to reach the "vibrant and full of life" young doctor over the weekend. Source: Irish Mirror Please help us in adding details.
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Tatiane “Tati” Ferraregi, Nurse
21Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Brazil, Medics, Profiles

Tatiane “Tati” Ferraregi, Nurse

Tatiane "Tati" Ferraregi – a Nurse at Hospital Geral de Carapicuíba, Carapicuíba, Brazil – passed away after suffering from COVID-19.  It was reported on 21 April, 2020. Ferraregi was 36 years old. Nurse Tatiane Ferraregi, who worked at the Hospital Geral de Carapicuíba, died at the age of 36. She was hospitalized for more than two weeks in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit). Diagnosed with Covid-19 , she did not survive the treatment's unfolding. She leaves two children and a husband. Source: SINDFUMSC Please help us in adding details.
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