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10Aug

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Pauldurai, policeman

Pauldurai, a special sub-inspector of police in Tamil Nadu’s Thoothukudi district and one of the 10 police personnel arrested in the custodial deaths of a father-son duo, died of Covid-19 in Madurai in the early hours of August 10, 2020, reported ANI. Pauldurai was admitted to the Government Rajaji Hospital on July 24 after he tested positive for the coronavirus. He had contracted the infection during his stay at the Madurai Central Prison. The 56-year-old police officer had “uncontrolled diabetes”, reported The Hindu. On Friday, Pauldurai’s wife had complained that the health condition of her husband was deteriorating. Mangayar Thilagam and other family members had petitioned the Thoothukudi superintendent of police for special medical care for him. ...

10Aug

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Nadjmi Adhani, mayor

Nadjmi Adhani, the mayor of Banjarbaru city in South Kalimantan, passed away on August 10, 2020, after being hospitalized for two weeks for COVID-19. Banjarbaru Disaster Mitigation Agency head Zaini Syahranie said Nadjmi passed away at Ulin Regional General Hospital in Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan. "Pak Nadji Adhani passed away at 2:30 a.m.," Zaini said in a written statement on Monday as reported by kompas.com. Nadjmi announced through an Instagram post in late July that he and his wife had tested positive for COVID-19. Nadjmi was hospitalized after the announcement. However, his condition worsened on Sunday after intensive treatment. The Jakarta Post

10Aug

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Dr Mohammad Ashraf Mir, physician

Dr Mohammad Ashraf Mir, a senior physician in Kashmir who had been treating the COVID-19 patients, died on August 9, 2020 after contracting the disease. Dr Mir, a resident of Pampore area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, passed away in the morning on August 9, 2020, at SKIMS Soura, they said. Mir had been treating COVID-19 patients for the past four months and in the process, contracted the virus. The doctor tested positive for COVID-19 and was admitted to the hospital with bilateral pneumonia. He was later shifted to an intensive care unit as he could not maintain oxygen saturation and passed away this morning, they added. Kashmir Images

4Aug

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Sunnam Rajaiah, politician

Sunnam Rajaiah -- former Bhadrachalam MLA, senior CPI (M) leader and Girijana Sangam leader -- reportedly died of COVID-19 in the wee hours on August 4, 2020. He was 68 years old. He died while being shifted from the Indian city of Hyderabad to a COVID-19 Hospital in Vijayawada. He is survived by wife and two sons and two daughters. A native of Sunnamvaari Gudem village, V.R. Puram mandal, in East Godavari district, Mr. Rajaiah served as Bhadrachalam MLA for three times. He participated in many tribal agitations, protecting tribal lands and their rights in the Agency areas in Bhadrachalam, East and West Godavari districts. The three-time MLA also participated in many agitations in CPI (M). The AP Girijana Sangam, Adivasi Sankshema Sangam and leaders of other organizations...

3Aug

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Satya Narain Singh, politician

Satya Narain Singh -- Bihar State secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI) and two-time former MLA -- died of COVID-19 late on August 2, 2020. Suffering from the pandemic, he was admitted to All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna, on July 30 where he died. “He breathed his last at 9.30 p.m. on Sunday here. Before being admitted to AIIMS, Patna, he was undergoing treatment for COVID-19 infection at a private hospital of the State capital,” said an AIIMS doctor. Mr. Singh, 77, won from the erstwhile Chautham Assembly constituency in Khagaria district in 1990 and 1995. The Hindu

3Aug

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Kamla Rani Varun, politician

Kamla Rani Varun Kamla Rani Varun, an Indian politician, died on August 2, days after testing positive for COVID-19. She was 62 years old. Ms. Varun, who was Technical Education minister in the Yogi Adityanath Cabinet of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, died during treatment at the SGPGI in Lucknow around 9.30 am. She tested positive and was receiving treatment, said Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath while delivering his condolence message. Ms. Varun was an MLA from Ghatampur in Kanpur and had been promoted to the State Cabinet in August 2019 when the Adityanath government went in for an expansion following the Lok Sabha victory. She was a former councillor and pracharak of the Seva Bharti, an affiliate of the RSS. She had success in the Lok Sabha elections in the past, winning from G...

Jairo Bravo, worker at Correctional Center

2Aug

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Jairo Bravo, worker at Correctional Center

Jairo Bravo, a man who worked at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, died on August 1, 2020, from complications of COVID-19. He is believed to be the first employee of Miami-Dade’s County’s detention system lost to the virus. Jairo Bravo, 48, worked at TGK for less than a year. Before that, he spent three years with the Florida Department of Corrections. His family lives outside of the country and is trying to get to Miami. Funeral arrangements are forthcoming. Local10.com

31Jul

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Herman Cain, politician

Herman Cain – a US politician and former presidential candidate ‑ died of coronavirus on July 30, 2020. He was 74. "Herman Cain – our boss, our friend, like a father to so many of us – has passed away," editor of the website Dan Calabrese wrote. "He's entering the presence of the Saviour he's served as an associate minister at Antioch Baptist Church in Atlanta, and preparing for his reward." Mr Calabrese noted that because of his history with cancer and his age, Mr Cain was in a high-risk group. "We knew when he was first hospitalised with COVID-19 that this was going to be a rough fight," Calabrese wrote. "He had trouble breathing and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. "We all prayed that the in...

31Jul

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Sergio Muñoz Sr, politician

Sergio Muñoz Sr., a US politician, died on July 30, 2020, after recently becoming ill with COVID-19,. The father of current state Rep. Sergio Muñoz Jr. and the party’s vice chair, Muñoz Sr. served as representative for Texas’ 36th district between 1993 and 1997. The Palmview native was 68 at the time of his death. He died at DHR Health (Doctors Hospital at Renaissance) in Edinburg. “I know he fought a hard long battle to the end, and that was just who he was,” Muñoz Jr. said of his father. “He never gave up.” In 1995, during the 74th Legislature, Muñoz Sr. served on the House Committee on Elections, which among several tasks reviewed early voting by mail problems and provided oversight of that year&rsq...

31Jul

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M Gunaprasad, politician

M Gunaprasad -- an Indian politician, Bodhan municipal councillor and TRS floor leader -- died of Covid-19 on July 30, 2020. Gunaprasad was a senior councillor in Bodhan Municipality and elected as councillor four times from 1995. He had been the floor leader of TRS party in the municipality. He and his wife were infected with Covid-19 a few days ago and were taking treatment at Deccan Hospital, Hyderabad. Telangana Today