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SĂ©kou Kourouma, politician
19Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
High Profilers, Profiles

SĂ©kou Kourouma, politician

SĂ©kou Kourouma a Guinean politician, political aide and advisor to Guinean President Alpha CondĂ© – died on April 18 2020. Kourouma held the position of Chief of Staff to President CondĂ©, a high-ranking post officially known as the Secretary General of the Government, until his death from COVID-19 in April 2020. Kourouma, who was also a former Minister of Public Works, was a relative of CondĂ©. SĂ©kou Kourouma died from complications of COVID-19 on Saturday, April 18, 2020, at Donka Hospital in Conakry. Guinea's Minister of Health, Colonel Remy Lamah, confirmed Kourouma's death that evening, while the Office of the President issued statements and tweets the next day. Kourouma's death was the latest in a string of high-profile deaths of officials during the COVID-19 pandemic in Guinea...
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Lobsang Thubten Trinley Yarphel, Tibetian Italian lama
19Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
High Profilers, Italy, Profiles

Lobsang Thubten Trinley Yarphel, Tibetian Italian lama

Lobsang Thubten Trinley Yarphel the 5th Gangchen Tulku Rinpoche of Tibet died from COVID-19 in Verbania on 18 April 2020, aged 78. He was a Tibetan-Italian lama of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. The 5th Gangchen Tulku Rinpoche was born in Drakshu, a small remote village which was about 55 kilometers from the city of Shigatse in 1941. His secular name was Wangdu Gyelpo. He was later recognized as the new incarnation Gangchen Sapen-la. He was enthroned at Gangchen Choepeling Monastery [it] at the age of five. When he was twelve years old, he received the “kachen” degree, Tashi Lhunpo's equivalent of the “geshe” degree. Later, he studied medicine, astrology, meditation, and philosophy in Sera Monastery and Tashi Lhunpo Monastery. After the annexation of Tibet by the Peopl...
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Erik Jean Christian Antoine Belfrage, diplomat and businessman
19Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
High Profilers, Profiles, Sweden

Erik Jean Christian Antoine Belfrage, diplomat and businessman

Erik Jean Christian Antoine Belfrage ‑ a Swedish diplomat, banking executive, and political consultant ‑ died at Saint Göran Hospital in Stockholm due to COVID‑19 on 18 April 2020.   Belfrage was the son of diplomat Kurt-Allan Belfrage and his wife, Renée France Paule Puaux. His brother, Frank Belfrage, is an economist and diplomat. Belfrage graduated from Stockholm School of Economics in 1970.   Belfrage worked in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs from 1970 to 1987 as a diplomat in Geneva, Washington, D.C., Bucharest, Beirut, and Paris. In 1987, he became vice president at Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken and as an adviser to Investor AB. Belfrage also served as an advisor to Peter Wallenberg and the Wallenberg family between 1987 and 2012.
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Martine Crefcoeur, actress
19Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Netherland, Noteworthy, Profiles

Martine Crefcoeur, actress

Martine Crefcoeur ‑ a Dutch stage and film actress – passed away on 18 April 2020 after contracting Covid-19 in Rotterdam. He was 84. Born in Rotterdam, Crefcoeur attended the Lyceum there. During her education at the Maastricht Academy of Dramatic Arts, she became the leading actor, playing Anne Frank, in The Diary of Anne Frank at Toneelgroep Theater. After she graduated, she continued working with the theater company from Arnhem for five more years. Later Crefcoeur worked for, among others, Nieuw Rotterdams Toneel, Ro Theater, and theater group Bonheur. She was the leading actor in the theater series The Family by Lodewijk de Boer and also in the 1973 film The Family. In the nineties she gave lessons at Jeugdtheater Hofplein in Rotterdam.
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Catalin Barbulescu, Thoracic Surgeon
19Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Medics, Profiles

Catalin Barbulescu, Thoracic Surgeon

Catalin Barbulescu – a Thoracic Surgeon at  Spitalul Universitar de Urgenta Bucuresti, Bucharest, Romania – passed away on 18 April, 2020, due to COVID-19. Catalin Barbulescu was 65 years old. “Our colleague Dr. Catalin Barbulescu passed away last night. Our thought is to follow this good man permanently from now on. The Emergency University Hospital suffers today the first loss in this fight with the times”, the hospital announced on its Facebook page of  the medical unit. Source: Media Fax Please help us in adding details.
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Jenni Claire Bartolome, Nurse
19Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Medics, Philippines, Profiles, United States

Jenni Claire Bartolome, Nurse

Jenni Claire Bartolome – a Registered Nurse at Emerson Health and Rehabilitation Center, Emerson, New Jersey – passed away on 18 April, 2020, due to COVID-19. Jenni was 45 years old. Jenni Claire Bartolome of Bogota, New Jersey passed away on April 18, 2020 in the Hackensack University Hospital, New Jersey. Born in Baguio City, Philippines she was the daughter of Mathew and Remedios Sucdad. She worked as a registered nurse at the Emerson Health and Rehabilitation Center Emerson, N.J. for 20 years Source: Pocono Record Please help us in adding details.
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Enrique Emilio Benites Quintero, Otolaryngologist
19Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
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Enrique Emilio Benites Quintero, Otolaryngologist

Enrique Emilio Benites Quintero – an Otolaryngologist at Boy Scout, ClínicaMilenium, Guayaquil, Ecuador – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on April 19, 2020. Enrique was 70 years old. Source: Telesur Please help us in adding details.
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Emilio Úcar Corral, Medical Director
19Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Medics, Profiles, Spain

Emilio Úcar Corral, Medical Director

Emilio Úcar Corral – a Medical Director at Hospital Universitario Santa Cristina, Madrid, Spain- passed away on 18 April, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Emilio was 58 years old. Source: Tellereport Please help us in adding details.
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