SP Gautam, medical officer

9Jun

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India, Medics, Profiles

SP Gautam, medical officer

SP Gautam, the chief medical superintendent of a district hospital in Uttar Pradesh's Ambedkar Nagar, died of the coronavirus on June 9, 2020. The doctor passed away during his treatment at Lucknow-based SGPGI hospital. Source: India TV Please help us in adding details.

9Jun

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High Profilers, Pakistan, Profiles

Sardar Dur Muhammad Nasir, politician

Sardar Dur Muhammad Nasir ‑ a Pakistani politician who was a member of the Provincial Assembly of Balochistan from May 2013 to May 2018 died on 8 June 2020 due to Covid-19. He was born on 15 September 1958 in Duki District, Pakistan. He did Matriculation. He was elected to the Provincial Assembly of Balochistan as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (N) from Constituency PB-14 Loralai-I in 2013 Pakistani general election. After Nasir contracted the coronavirus, he isolated himself at his residence in Duki. He was later shifted to a hospital in Karachi when his condition deteriorated, where he died on 8 June.

9Jun

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Wali Akhtar Nadwi, professor

Wali Akhtar Nadwi, who was serving as the head of the Arabic department at the University of Delhi, succumbed to Covid-19 on June 9, 2020. As many as six private hospitals in Delhi and Noida had allegedly refused to admit the professor stating various reasons. On June 2, Akhtar had developed a fever flowing which the members of his family approached at least six hospitals including Fortis Hospital, Delhi’s Bansal Hospital, Moolchand Hospital and Holy Family hospital in Delhi and Kailash Hospital in neighbouring Noida in UP. The hospitals allegedly refused admission to him. While some hospitals refused admission citing non-availability of beds others said that they were not admitting patients having fever, according to a report by Muslim Mirror. Akhtar’s family finally managed to secure...

8Jun

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India, Neighbors, Profiles

Shivaji Mishra, teacher

Shivaji Mishra, an English teacher at a government school in Kalyan Niwas, died of Covid-19 on June 7, 2020. Mishra, 48, was also working at a food distribution centre. His son Piyush Mishra said that his father developed symptoms of Covid-19 around June 1. “On June 2 his condition worsened and we took him to a private hospital in Mandoli. He tested positive for Covid last Thursday, following which the hospital asked us to shift him to a Covid designated hospital. We shifted him to Safdurjaung hospital on Friday, where he was shifted to ICU. He succumbed on Sunday (June 7, 2020),” he said.

8Jun

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Mexico, Noteworthy, Profiles

Manuel Felguérez, abstract artist

Manuel Felguérez Barra ‑ a Mexican abstract artist, part of the Generación de la Ruptura which broke with the muralist movement of Diego Rivera and others in the mid 20th century – passed away after contracting coronavirus on June 8, 2020. Felguérez was born in the state of Zacatecas in 1928, but political instability caused his family to lose their land there and move to Mexico City. In 1947, he had the chance to travel to Europe and, impressed with the art there, decided to dedicate himself to the vocation. Unhappy with the education at the Academy of San Carlos in Mexico, he did most of his studies in France, where he specialized in abstract art, something that was not accepted in Mexico at the time. His exhibitions were initially limited to galleries and the production of "sculpted...

8Jun

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Lynika Strozier, scientist

Lynika Strozier ‑ an American scientist whose efforts to overcome a learning disability were described as inspirational – succumbed to the Covid 19 on June 7, 2020 at just 35 years of age. Strozier was born in Birmingham, Alabama, but moved to Chicago, with her mother, when she was a toddler. Strozier's mother was a drug addict, who was not able to care for her properly, and her grandmother raised her from age 6. She was diagnosed with learning disabilities at age 8, that profoundly affected both reading and math. According to The Chicago Tribune "when she read aloud, it was in such a halting manner that it sometimes sounded like she was gasping for breath." Her grandmother recounts being advised that Lynika's disability was so profound she shou...

7Jun

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Germany, Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Dietmar Seyferth, professor

Dietmar Seyferth ‑ an emeritus professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – succumbed to Covid-19 on June 6, 2020. He published widely on topics in organometallic chemistry and was the founding editor of the journal Organometallics. Seyferth was born in 1929 in Chemnitz, Germany and received his college education at the University of Buffalo. His PhD thesis dealt with main group chemistry under the mentorship of Eugene G. Rochow at Harvard. He spent his entire academic career at MIT, focusing initially on organophosphorus, organosilicon, and organomercury chemistry. He also contributed to organocobalt chemistry and organoiron chemistry, e.g. the popularization of Fe2S2(CO)6. He died on Saturday, June 6, 2020, due to complications from COVID-19....

6Jun

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Brazil, Noteworthy, Profiles

Carlos Lessa, economist

Carlos Francisco Theodoro Machado Ribeiro de Lessa, better known as Carlos Lessa was a Brazilian economist and professor. He died from Covid-19 on June 5, 2020. Born in July 30, 1936 in Rio de Janeiro to a wealthy family, Lessa studied at private schools in his native city. In 1959, he graduated in economics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and later got a Master's degree at Conselho Nacional de Economia. In 1980 he finished his doctor's degree in Human sciences at University of Campinas. Lessa worked as a professor at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and at the Rio Branco Institute, the Brazilian diplomatic graduate school. In 2002, Lessa was elected Rector of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. It was his post for a brief period of time betw...

5Jun

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Pakistan, Profiles, United Arab Emirates

Amad Uddin, PRO

Amad Uddin, who was working as PRO with Dubai's Al Rais Group, passed away on June 5 after suffering from Covid-19 in the United Arab Emirates.Hailing from Khas Dir in Pakistan, this University of Karachi alumni was admitted to a hospital in Dubai after being diagonsed with coronavirus. His wife, as per a social media post on May 16, 2020, by a relative, had also tested Covid-19 positive.On his Facebook page, Mian Mujahid Shah writes, "My beloved Mama jee, Amad Uddin, left for his havenly abode this evening at a hospital in Dubai. The martyred soul fought COVID-19 bravely till the very end. He was the person who not only cared for his family but all who sought his help. The departed soul was one of those very few who could not see anyone in trouble and was always the first one to lend ...

5Jun

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Anil Suri, movie producer

Bollywood producer Anil Suri ‑ who had backed films like Raaj Kumar-Rekha starrer Karmayogi and Raaj Tilak ‑ passed away due to coronavirus on June 4, 2020. He was 77. Anil’s brother, film producer Rajiv Suri, said he had fever on June 2 but his condition worsened the next day with breathlessness. “He was rushed to the top hospitals, Lilavati and Hinduja, but both denied him a bed,” Rajiv claimed. “He was then taken to Advanced Multispeciality Hospital on Wednesday (June 3) night. He had COVID-19. On Thursday (June 4) evening, they said something is amiss and he was put on ventilator. He died around 7:00 pm,” Rajiv told PTI. Last rites of Anil were held on June 5, 2020, at Oshiwara cremation ground with four close family members attending it wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)....