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Man dies after marriage, 111 guests test positive

16Jun

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India, Neighbors, Profiles, Sad But True

Man dies after marriage, 111 guests test positive

A wedding ceremony in rural Patna on June 15, 2020, where the groom was running high fever and died two days after his wedding, with his body cremated without being tested for Covid-19, appears to have set off the biggest infection chain in Bihar so far, media reports quoted health department officials as saying. More than 100 people have tested positive in Paliganj sub-division of Patna district, about 55 km from the state capital, in the last few days, out of over 350 who have been tested upon contact tracing, they said. Fifteen of his relatives who attended the wedding tested positive for the contagion and apparently infected others, reported news agency PTI. The officials, who requested anonymity, said the groom was a software engineer based in Gurugram and had returned hom...

15Jun

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Noteworthy, Profiles, South Africa

Elsa Joubert, writer

Elsa Joubert OIS ‑ a Sestigers Afrikaans-language writer succumbed to Covid-19-related caused in Cape Town on 14 June 2020. She rose to prominence with her novel Die swerfjare van Poppie Nongena, which was translated into 13 languages, as well as staged as a drama and filmed as Poppie Nongena. Elsa Joubert grew up in Paarl and matriculated from the all-girls school La Rochelle in Paarl in 1939. She then studied at the University of Stellenbosch from which she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1942 and an SED (Secondary Education Diploma) in 1943. She continued her studies at the University of Cape Town which she left with a Master's degree in Dutch-Afrikaans literature in 1945. After graduating, Joubert taught at the Hoër Meisieskool, an all-girls high sch...

15Jun

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Mexico, Noteworthy, Profiles

Aarón Padilla Gutiérrez, footballer

Aarón Padilla Gutiérrez ‑ a Mexican football striker who played for the Mexico national team between 1965 and 1970, gaining 55 caps and scoring 8 goals – died from Covid-19 on June 14, 2020. He was part of the Mexico squad for the 1966 and 1970 World Cups. At club level, Padilla played for Pumas, Atlante, and Veracruz.

15Jun

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Bangladesh, High Profilers, Profiles

Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran, politician

Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran ‑ a Bangladeshi politician and the first elected mayor of Sylhet city corporation – succumbed to Covid-19 on 15 June 2020. He was elected twice as mayor of Sylhet City. In 2013, he lost to Arif by nearly 3,000 votes. He was also a member on the standing Committee of Awami League. Kamran was born on 1 January 1951. He was elected ward commissioner of Sylhet in 1973, when he was still a high school student. Kamran was elected Chairman of Sylhet municipality board in 1995. From 1989 to 2002, he served as the General Secretary of Sylhet city unit of Awami League. He became the mayor of Sylhet city by defeating Muhammad Abdul Haque in March 2003; In which Kamran won the election by more than 20,000 votes. He became the President of Sylhet City un...

15Jun

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High Profilers, Iraq, Profiles

Tawfiq al-Yasiri, politician

Tawfiq al-Yasiri ‑ an Iraqi military officer and politician ‑ died on 14 June 2020 in Al Diwaniyah, making him the first politician in Iraq to die from the COVID-19 pandemic.. He was a brigadier general in the events of 1991 in Iraq, and led opponents of Saddam Hussein's regime in the city of Al Diwaniyah, then fled to Saudi Arabia, where he stayed for several years in the Rafha camp. From there he went to London, where he was active among the opposition within the leadership of the Iraqi National Accord Movement led by former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi. He later separated from it and returned to Baghdad after the occupation of Iraq in 2003 and formed a political organization called the "Iraqi National Democratic Coalition". He worked as a consultant in the first Min...

15Jun

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India, Neighbors, Profiles

Magan Baraiya, policeman

Magan Baraiya – an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) in India’s Surat district – died on June 14, 2020, after he was discharged from New Civil Hospital (NCH) in Surat. The family of the first Covid-19 casualty of Surat police says no test was conducted on the deceased ASI before he was discharged from hospital, reported The Indian Express. Baraiya was deployed at Bhagal Cross road in Surat and was taken to NCH on May 30, after he reported fever, cough and cold. A Home Guard posted with Baraiya had tested positive and was undergoing treatment. Baraiya was also tested and his results came positive on May 31. He underwent treatment for 10 days and was discharged from the hospital on June 9. “We were happy, welcomed him back home, but maintained social dis...

15Jun

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Congo, High Profilers, Profiles

Pierre Lumbi, politician

Pierre Lumbi Okongo ‑ a politician in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – passed away on 14 June 2020 after contracting Covid-19 in Kinshasa. Lumbi was one of the founders of the Peasant Solidarity (Solidarité Paysanne) movement, which gained legal status in 1985. The initial purpose was to help the rural masses express their problems, resist forced cultivation of cotton, facilitate sales of their crops and help them find new business opportunities. After establishing a National Council of NGOs, the movement began making political demands, calling for a multiparty system at a conference in Kinshasa in 1991. Lumbi joined the government of Étienne Tshisekedi in August 1992 and April 1993, where he was Minister of Foreign Affairs. He joined the government of ...

14Jun

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Bangladesh, High Profilers, Profiles

Sheikh Md Abdullah, politician

Sheikh Md Abdullah ‑ a Bangladesh Awami League politician and lawyer who served as the State Minister of Religious Affairs from 2019 until his death – died of Covid-19 on 13 June 2020. He was appointed as the minister in the Fourth Sheikh Hasina Cabinet in January 2019. Abdullah was born on 8 September 1945 in Gopalganj in the then Bengal Presidency, British India. He studied at a Qawmi madrasa and at Sultan Shahi Kekania primary school and high school. He completed his undergraduate studies at Azam Khan Government Commerce College in the Khulna District. In 1972, he completed his masters in communication from University of Dhaka. Two years later, in 1974, he completed his second masters in economics from the same university. Abdullah was the founding president of the Gopalganj unit of...

14Jun

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High Profilers, Nicaragua, Profiles

Edén Pastora, politician

Edén Atanacio Pastora Gómez ‑ a Nicaraguan politician and guerrilla who ran for president as the candidate of the Alternative for Change (AC) party in the 2006 general elections – died in Managua on June 13, 2020 from COVID-19. In the years prior to the fall of the Somoza regime, Pastora was the leader of the Southern Front, the largest militia in southern Nicaragua, second only to the FSLN (Sandinista National Liberation Front) in the north. Pastora was nicknamed Comandante Cero ("Commander Zero"). His group was the first to call itself "Sandinistas", and was also the first to accept an alliance with the FSLN, the group that was to become more popularly identified by the name. At the end of 1982, a few years after the revolutionary victory, Pastora became disillusioned with the gover...

14Jun

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Bangladesh, High Profilers, Profiles

Mohammed Nasim, politician

Mohammed Nasim ‑ a Bangladesh Awami League politician – died due to Covid-19 on 13 June 2020. He had served as the Minister of Health and Family Welfare and Minister of Home Affairs of the Government of Bangladesh respectively during 2014-2019 and 1999-2001. He was a 6-term Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Sirajganj-1 and Sirajganj-2 constituencies. He was a presidium member of Awami League and the spokesperson of the 14-party alliance. Nasim was born on 2 April 1948 at Kazipur Upazila in Sirajganj District to Muhammad Mansur Ali and Amena Monsur. Ali served as the 3rd Prime Minister of Bangladesh in 1975 and was one of the four leaders killed in the Dhaka Central Jail as a part of the coup d'état on 7 November 1975. He studied at Edward College in Pab...