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Idalgo Moura dos Santos, Nurse
1Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
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Idalgo Moura dos Santos, Nurse

Idalgo Moura dos Santos – a Nurse at Hospital Municipal do Tatuapé, São Paulo, Brazil (presumed) – passed away on 31 March 2020 after suffering from COVID-19. Idalgo was 45 years old. The Paraiban nurse Idalgo Moura, 45, who worked on the line to combat covid-19 at the Municipal Hospital of Tatuapé, in São Paulo, died on Tuesday night (March 31), possibly after contracting the disease. According to his sister, journalist Mafalda Moura, Idalgo took chloroquine, a drug that has been suggested as a possible treatment for the disease caused by the new coronavirus, but has not resisted. The lung stopped responding, as did the kidney, which stopped. Mafalda said that doctors tried hemodialysis, but it was not possible, as Idalgo was v...
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Daniel Azulay, artist
28Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
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Daniel Azulay, artist

Daniel Azulay –a Brazilian visual artist, comic book artist, and educator, with vast and diverse performance in the press and on TV as a draftsman – died of Covid-19 on March 27, 2020.   He is most known for the children's franchise Turma do Lambe-Lambe. He died due to complications brought on by COVID-19.   Azulay was born in Rio de Janeiro and raised in Ipanema. He was of Jewish origin and the youngest son of lawyer Fortunato and Clarita, who drew a classic design in Paris.   In 1968, he created the newspaper strip Capitão Cipó, published in the newspaper Correio da Manhã and in 1975, launched the Turma do Lambe-Lambe. Capitão Cipó was a parody on the sexual revolution and is visually a bit similar ...
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Juraci Augusta da Silva, Nurse
28Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
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Juraci Augusta da Silva, Nurse

Juraci Augusta da Silva – a Nurse at Hospital Municipal do Tatuapé, São Paulo, Brazil – passed away on 27 March,2020, due to COVID-19. Juraci was 70 years old. A 70-year-old nurse who worked to contain the coronavirus pandemic died with suspicion of the disease. According to co-workers, even though he was in the risk group, Juraci Augusta da Silva continued to exercise his profession to save lives. Juraci worked at the Tatuapé Municipal Hospital, in the East Zone of São Paulo. Source: Sao Paulo Please help us in adding details.
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Naomi Munakata
27Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
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Naomi Munakata

Naomi Munakata –a Japanese-born Brazilian choral conductor and academic teacher based in the city of São Paulo – died on 26 March 2020 due to Covid-19.   She was conductor of OSESP, the choir of the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, from 1995 to 2013, and then principal conductor of Coral Paulistano Mário de Andrade at the Municipal Theatre. She was among the choral conductors in South America who "have contributed to the strengthening and stimulation of choral music", according to The Cambridge Companion to Choral Music.   Munakata was born in Hiroshima, and the family moved to São Paulo, Brazil, when she was age two. She received piano lessons from age four and began singing in a choir that her ...
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Martinho Lutero Galati, conductor
26Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
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Martinho Lutero Galati, conductor

Martinho Lutero Galati de Oliveira –a Brazilian conductor – succumbed to Covid-19 on 25 March 2020.   He died in São Paulo in March 2020 after suffering from COVID-19.   Galati wrote the book Do gesture à gestão: um diálogo sobre maestros e liderança. He was director of the Coral Paulistano do Theatro Municipal de São Paulo from 2013 to 2016. He was elected president of the Associação Brasileira de Regentes Corais in 2018. He was a professor at the Free University of Languages and Communication and at the Institute of Musicology of Milan.
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Pedro Di Marco, Cardiologist
22Mar By Web TeamNo Comments
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Pedro Di Marco, Cardiologist

Pedro Di Marco – a Cardiologist at Hospital Universitário Pedro Ernesto, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – passed away on 22 March 2020. Pedro was 65 years old. He was hospitalized with the flu on Thursday (19) at Hospital São Vicente de Paulo, in Tijuca. Having other diseases, he was isolated and tested for Covid-19. At Pedro Ernesto, the cardiologist came to occupy the functions of Director of Technical Services and Head of the Cardiac Rehabilitation Sector. Hospital São Vicente de Paulo said it is awaiting the result of the Covid-19 exam, performed by Lacen-RJ. "It is only possible to state whether his death was motivated by the new coronavirus, after this report," said the hospital. Source: Globo Please help us in adding details.
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Diamir Gomes, Anaesthesiologist
28Jan By Web TeamNo Comments
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Diamir Gomes, Anaesthesiologist

Diamir Gomes – an Anaesthesiologist in Santos, Brazil – passed away on 27 January, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Diamir was 74 years old. He had flu like symptoms for a few days, but noticed rapid worsening in his breathing.  Source: Foula De S Paula Please help us in adding details.
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