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13Jul

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Kris Chupp, DJ

Kris Chupp aka DJ Steel, a popular Valley DJ, passed away due to complications from COVID-19 on July 12, 2020. The 42 years old was the entertainment director for Dierks Bentley's Whiskey Row. He was a professional DJ well-known in the country music scene. According to a GoFundMe page set up for Chupp's wife and family, Chupp passed away in the morning of July 12, 2020, due to complications from the coronavirus. He'd been in the ICU since June 26. abc15 Arizona

6Jul

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Randy Rumler, corrections officer

Randy Rumler, a two-decade veteran of the Michigan Department of Corrections, died on July 6, 2020, after battling with COVID-19, the MDOC's Honor Guard announced. According to the honor guard, Rumler worked his entire 24-year career at the Gus Harrison Correctional Facility in Adrian. In recent years he worked in food service at the facility. Inmates and loved ones connected to the Harrison facility have expressed concerns that the department introduced COVID-19 to the facility by using it as a "step-down" unit for people who had earlier tested positive for the virus but didn't currently have it, and weren't yet ready to return to their home facility. Rumler was one of 383 staffers to catch the virus, including 31 others at Gus Harrison, and he is the ...

6Jul

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Canada, Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Nick Cordero, actor

Nick Cordero ‑ the Tony award-nominated Broadway actor who starred in hit musicals including Waitress, A Bronx Tale and Bullets Over Broadway ‑ has died in Los Angeles from severe medical complications after contracting coronavirus. He was 41. Cordero died on July 5, 2020, at Cedars-Sinai hospital after spending more than 90 days in the hospital, The Guardian quoted his wife Amanda Kloots as saying. “God has another angel in heaven now,” she posted on Instagram. “Nick was such a bright light. He was everyone’s friend, loved to listen, help and especially talk. He was an incredible actor and musician. He loved his family and loved being a father and husband.” Cordero reportedly entered the emergency room on 30 March and had a succession of health setbacks including mini-strokes, blood c...

5Jul

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India, Noteworthy, Profiles

Pascoal D’Souza, councillor

Pascoal D’Souza -- a 72-year-old Councillor of the Mormugao Municipal Council in the Indian state of Goa ‑ died due to COVID-19 on July 5, 2020. D’Souza had tested positive for coronavirus a month earlier following which he was admitted to Margao-based ESI Hospital, a specially designated facility for COVID-19 patients. He succumbed to the viral infection on July 5, the official said. Mr. D’Souza represented a ward in Mangor Hill area, which has been declared as a containment zone after more than 200 people there tested positive for coronavirus.

5Jul

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Egypt, Noteworthy, Profiles

Ragaa El-Gadawi, actress

Ragaa El-Gadawi, a veteran Egyptian actress, died from coronavirus complications on July 5, 2020. The actress, whose career spanned over six decades, passed away due to complications while undergoing treatment for Covid-19, reported Arab News. She was 81 years old. The late legendary actress tested positive for the coronavirus in May, two days before she wrapped up filming for the TV series “Le’bet El Nesyan” She was moved to a hospital in Ismailia, north-eastern Egypt, for treatment. Last week, a source at the Abu Khalifa Isolation Hospital revealed that the actress had reportedly been transferred into the intensive care unit, as her health worsened. The source added that El-Gedawy was transferred immediately to the ICU after she felt shortness of br...

5Jul

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India, Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

Bhakti Charu Swami, spiritual leader

Bhakti Charu Swami ‑ a spiritual leader of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) and a disciple of ISKCON's founder A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada – passed away after contracting Covid-19 on 4 July 2020 in Florida, USA. He was born in 1945 into an aristocratic Bengali family and spent the rest of his early childhood in urban Kolkata. Leaving India in 1970 for his further education, he attended university in Germany. There, he searched out the ancient Vedic scriptures and instantly became driven to explore the depths of spirituality, discovering the richness of India’s spiritual heritage. Becoming engrossed in the depths of a book which he obtained called The Nectar of Devotion written by Srila Prabhupada, he realized that he had foun...

3Jul

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Erica McAdoo, police officer

Erica McAdoo, a Senior Detention Officer with the Los Angeles Police Department, died from complications of COVID-19 on July 3, 2020. LAPD officials have not confirmed thus far whether or not Officer McAdoo acquired the virus on the job. Another 287 LAPD employees are now quarantined at home after having been exposed to the novel coronavirus, according to the department’s tweet. On Facebook, Jerome Hall, of the Fort Worth Black Law Enforcement Officers Association, wrote that Erica McAddo’s mother, Donna Royston, reported that even though her daughter had been “cured” of the COVID-19 virus, yet “she remained ill for months,” with damage to heart and kidneys. WLA has not yet been able to confirm the above statement, but the matter of ser...

3Jul

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India, Noteworthy, Profiles

Vikas Samyal, Brigadier

Vikas Samyal, a brigadier of the Indian Army, died in Kolkata on July 2, 2020, of complications related to coronavirus infection. Posted at Eastern Command, he is believed to be the highest-ranking Indian Army officer to have lost his life to the virus. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee offered her condolences to his family. West Bengal government's Home Department tweeted, "Hon'ble Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and GOWB express deep condolences on untimely passing away of Brigadier Vikas Samyal......who succumbed to Covid19 today at the Command Hospital Kolkata." The officer had been admitted to the Army's designated COVID-19 hospital, the Military Hospital at Barrackpore, where he tested positive for the virus. But after complications developed, he was ...

1Jul

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Sanjeev Kumar Yadav, police inspector

Sanjeev Kumar Yadav ‑ a 49-year-old inspector of Delhi Police who was posted with special cell ‑ died at South Delhi’s Max hospital the night of June 30, 2020, due to COVID-19. “Sanjeev Kumar Yadav had been admitted to Max Hospital after testing positive around 15 days ago. He developed fever and was on ventilator after complaining of breathlessness,” a senior police officer said. Yadav was posted with the south-western range of special cell and received the Police Medal for gallantry this year. He was earlier posted with Crime Branch and Tughlaq Road police station. He hailed from Uttar Pradesh and is survived by his wife, who was also hospitalised after she was tested positive and two children in East Delhi’s Laxmi Nagar. The Indian Express

30Jun

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Kenya, Noteworthy, Profiles

Elisha Juma, Bishop

Elisha Juma, the Kenya Assemblies of God (KAG) Tudor bishop, died from Covid-19 on June 29 at Mombasa Hospital. His death came barely three months after the cleric’s eldest son died of the same disease in the US. The family said he had been admitted to the hospital for some time over high blood pressure and diabetes. The family was still coming to terms with the death of the bishop’s son Peter Juma, 35, who died in the United States on March 28. He had worked as a paramedic at St Catherine of Siena Hospital and last visited Kenya over the Christmas period last year. Close family members said the bishop had expressed hope that the remains of his son were buried at a place the family could have an opportunity to pay their final respects after the pandemic. According to the family’s...