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25Jun

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India, Medics, Profiles

Basavaraj Karigoudar, physician

Basavaraj Karigoudar ‑ a physician working at Khiladgi Primary Health Centre in Mudhol Taluk of Bagalkot district of the south Indian state of Karnataka – died due to Covid-19 on June 25, 2020. The 30 years old doctor was infected with Hepatitis B after being pricked by a needle during his work at the hospital. After that, his condition worsened. He subsequently developed liver failure. He was then immediately shifted to Fortis Hospital for a liver transplant, reported The Hindu. He was tested COVID positive there and eventually passed away on June 25, 2020. He was a young doctor and a former student of MIMS of 2011 batch. His was the first COVID-19 fatality in the medical fraternity in Karnataka, the report said. The Hindu

25Jun

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Iraq, Noteworthy, Profiles

Mohammed Yaseen Mohammed, weightlifter

Mohammed Yaseen Mohammed ‑ an Iraqi weightlifter who competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics and the 1984 Summer Olympics ‑ died in Sweden after suffering from a COVID-19 infection on 24 June 2020.

Jean-Michel Bokamba-Yangouma, politician

24Jun

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Congo, High Profilers, Profiles

Jean-Michel Bokamba-Yangouma, politician

Jean-Michel Bokamba-Yangouma ‑ a Congolese politician – passed away on 23 June 2020 after suffering from Covid-19 complications. He was a prominent political figure from the 1970s to the 1990s, heading the Congolese Trade Union Confederation (Confédération syndicale congolaise, CSC). He was the President of the General Movement for the Construction of Congo (Mouvement général pour la construction du Congo, MGCC), a political party. Bokamba-Yangouma was from Cuvette Region in northern Congo-Brazzaville. He was the Secretary-General of the CSC from 1974 to 1997. During the single party rule of the Congolese Labour Party (PCT), he also became a member of the PCT Political Bureau in 1979 and was assigned responsibility for party organization. ...

24Jun

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Neighbors, Profiles, United States

Carsyn Davis, teenager

Carsyn Davis ‑- a 17-year-old Fort Myers resident and a cancer survivor with a rare, ongoing autoimmune disorder ‑- died of respiratory failure after contracting the new coronavirus on June 23, 2020. The medical examiner's report notes that Davis attended a 100-person church event, where people were not required to wear face masks, roughly two weeks before she died in a Miami-Dade County hospital. During the nine days that followed, she was given antibiotics, hydroxychloroquine and oxygen via her grandfather's portable machine by her parents while at home. Her mother, Carole Brunton Davis, is a nurse. The hospital recommended intubation when Davis was admitted to its pediatric unit on June 19, but her parents declined the procedure, according to the county medi...

Reagan Henry, certified nursing assistant

24Jun

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Medics, Profiles, United States

Reagan Henry, certified nursing assistant

Reagan Henry, a CNA at Deerfield Retirement Community, died on June 23 from COVID-19 at Mission Hospital. His funeral was on June 27 in Asheville. The 39-year-old was known as a gentle, kind, hard worker. Reagan was the first health care worker at a nursing home facility in Western North Carolina to die of COVID-19, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services, and one of only three nursing home caregivers in the state to die of the disease. Many of the large, tight-knit family members came from Micronesia to Asheville to work in the health care field. Citizen Times

22Jun

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India, Medics, Profiles

Yasir Naseem, medical officer

Dr Yasir Naseem ‑ a senior medical officer in the cardiothoracic and vascular surgery (CTVS) department at Delhi’s Fortis Escorts Heart Institute – died of Covid-19-related complications on June 21, 2020. The 49-year-old doctor was employed at Delhi’s Fortis Escorts Heart Institute for around four years. The hospital has a Covid-19 ward, reported The Indian Express. A senior official at the hospital reportedly said, “He stopped coming to the hospital after June 3. Since the department wasn’t aware, someone got in touch with him and he said he was sick and won’t be coming in till he’s better. The hospital stayed in touch with him.” On June 17, Dr Naseem’s wife, also a doctor, rushed him to Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, r...

22Jun

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Iraq, Noteworthy, Profiles

Ahmed Radhi, footballer

Ahmed Radhi Amaiesh Al-Salehi ‑ an Iraqi footballer who played as a forward – succumbed to Covid-19 on 21 June 2020. Known for his speed, attacking ability, headers and also his good looks, Radhi was and is regarded as one of Iraq's best players of all-time. Radhi scored the only Iraqi goal in the FIFA World Cup during its 1986 edition, a low shot to the corner of the net against Belgium in the 2–1 defeat. He was voted the 1988 Asian Footballer of the Year. As a forward on Iraq's national team from 1983 to 1997, he scored sixty-two goals. Radhi grew up in a poor working-class, Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad. With Iraq he won 2 Arab Cups, 1 Pan-Arab Games & a Gulf Cup, while he also represented Iraq in the Olympics in 1988. In 1988, was voted Asian player of the year and 9th best As...

22Jun

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Ken Snow, soccer player

Kenneth Snow ‑ an American soccer forward who was a two-time winner of the Hermann Trophy as the outstanding college soccer player in 1988 and 1990 – died of Covid-19 on June 21, 2020. He had an eight-year professional career playing indoor soccer in the United States. Ken Snow was born in Arlington Heights, Illinois. He grew up in Illinois and attended Hoffman Estates High School from 1983 to 1986 where he played soccer. While at Hoffman, Snow scored in 47 consecutive games, ranking him second, after his brother Steve Snow, on the Illinois High School Association's list of consecutive matches scored in. Ken also ranks #9 on the Illinois state career goals list with 128 goals and #16 on the season (1985) goal scoring list with 49 goals. After graduating from high s...

22Jun

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Brazil, Noteworthy, Profiles

Marconi Alencar, politician

Marconi José Figueiredo de Alencar aka known simply as Marconi Alencar ‑ a Brazilian Politician from the state of Ceará – died from Covid-19 on June 21, 2020. Between 1962 and 1966, Alencar acted as Mayor of Araripe. In 1970, Alencar was elected Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ceará. He remained in power from 1971 to 1975. In 1974, he was re-elected State Deputy and kept his post from 1975 to 1979. In 1978, he was elected State Deputy for the third consecutive time. His third tenure lasted from 1979 to 1983. In 1982, Alencar was elected State Deputy for the fourth and last time. This time remaining in charge from 1983 to 1987. On June 21, 2020, Alencar died in Fortaleza at the age of 81 due to complications brought on by COVID-19. ...

22Jun

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Noteworthy, Pakistan, Profiles

Talib Jauhari, religious scholar

Talib Jauhari ‑ a Pakistani Islamic scholar, poet, historian and philosopher of the Shia Sect of Islam – died due to Covid-19 complications on 21 June 2020. Talib Jauhari supported ethnic and sectarian harmony his sermons used to be composed on observance of Allah's orders, pursuing the way of Prophet Muhammad and love and respect for Ahlybait. He was not only respected among the Shia community in the Indo-Pak Subcontinent but Sunnis also used to attend his lectures due to his Tafseer-e-Quran in a logical way. He was also a promoter of Shia Sunni unity in Pakistan. "His book Hadees-e-Karabla is one of the few Maqtal written in Urdu and has been considered as one of the most well compiled sources to the traditions related to the Event of Karbala." ...