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8May

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Italy, Medics, Profiles

Vincenza Amato, Medical officer

Vincenza Amato – a Medical Director responsible for UOS Hygiene at the Department of Hygiene and Health Prevention, Bergamo, Italy – passed away due to COVID-19. He was 65 years old. Source: Fnoceo Please help us in adding details.

4May

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High Profilers, India, Profiles

Anil Kohli, Indian police officer

Anil Kohli, an assistant commissioner of police, who was undergoing treatment for COVID-19 at a private hospital in Ludhiana, died on April 18, 2020. "Sad News ACP Anil Kohli passed away. Died of #COVID-19. Was admitted in SPS Hospital Ludhiana," Ludhiana district public relations office tweeted. ACP Anil Kohli had tested positive for coronavirus a few days ago. On April 17, the Punjab government had given its go-ahead to the hospital to conduct plasma therapy on the police officer. Kohli (52) breathed his last at the SPS hospital, Ludhiana, informed Civil Surgeon, Ludhiana Rajesh Bagga, adding that his first test for the infection was negative but he tested positive in the subsequent test. The ACP did not show any sign of improvement since he was hospitalised and finally die...

8Apr

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Guyana, High Profilers, Profiles

John Percy Leon Lewis, military officer

John Percy Leon Lewis - a Guyanan military officer - died on 7 April, 2020 due to COVID-19. Lewis had also been president of the Guyana Rugby Football Union. He is believed to have been Guyana's sixth coronavirus victim, dying a few days after his wife Juliet Lewis who died on March 27 from pneumonia. Deputy Commandant of The Guyana Peoples Militia Longest serving reserve officer in Guyana with over 30 years of service. Only reserve officer to become a full Colonel by moving up from a Reserve Subaltern in 1968. Only reserve officer to be awarded the Military Service Medal. Lewis died on 7 April, 2020, in Guyana due to complications from COVID-19.

8Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Nipper Read, police officer

Leonard Ernest "Nipper" Read - a British police officer and boxing administrator – died on 7 April, 2020 due to COVID-19. Read was the son of Leonard Read Snr., who worked for a leather company, and his wife Ida (née Morris). His mother died when he was four and he was sent to live with her brother. After their father remarried, Leonard and his two sisters and brother returned to live with their father and stepmother. Read did well in school, always being one of the top three pupils in junior and senior school. He learned to box, winning his first medal in 1937. He later joined the Grundy boxing club, where he was nicknamed "Nipper". Read had hoped to attend Nottingham High School and passed the entrance exam, but his father could not afford the...

4Apr

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France, Noteworthy, Profiles

Henri Ecochard, military officer

Henri Ecochard ‑ a French military officer who served in the Free French Forces during World War II – died on 3 April 2020 in Levallois-Perret at the age of 96 due to COVID-19. He is known for compiling a list of fighters for Free France. Ecochard was born on 24 April 1923 in Cholet. His father was a doctor based in Airvault, who was heavily pacifist due to the memory of World War I. He was interested in international relations from a young age. Ecochard attended the Lycée Descartes in Tours. An anti-fascist, he was opposed to the anti-parliamentary ideals of François de La Rocque. He was also opposed to the Munich Agreement, which allowed Adolf Hitler to annex the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia. When war was finally declared in France, Ecochard raised the Fla...

25Mar

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Medics, Philippines, Profiles

Marcelo Jaochico, Health officer

Marcelo Jaochico – the Chief of Pampanga Pampanga Provincial Health Office, Philippines – passed away on 24 March 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Marcelo was 56 years old. Cielo Jaochico, Marcelo’s daughter, confirmed her father’s death. According to her, they received Marcelo’s COVID-19 test on the day of his death. "He experienced loss of appetite, fatigue, diarrhea, and shortness of breath. He was home quarantined. He underwent CBS test and the results are normal. He was given IV fluids while in his home in Pampanga until Sunday, March 15,” she disclosed. Source:Rappler Please help us in adding details.