Covid – Page 9

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

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.

4Jul

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Neighbors, Profiles, United States

Cynthia “Cindy” Solomon Tilley

Cynthia “Cindy” Solomon Tilley, a member of the North Myrtle Beach area community in the United States, died on July 3, 2020, due to complications from COVID-19 after battling the virus for more than two weeks. Tilley started feeling sick in June and went to the doctor where she tested positive for the virus. Her symptoms worsened as weeks passed. “She just wasn’t getting any better and she wound up going back to the hospital and had some IV fluids and some breathing treatments done. She wound up getting pneumonia in her left lung,” said her best friend and employer Amy Howie. Howie says she also suffered from a blood clot. Tilley was released from the hospital to recover from home. Howie was able to talk to Tilley in her final hours. Scared,...

4Jul

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News, Profiles, United States

Scott Erskine, serial killer

Scott Thomas Erskine ‑ an American serial killer on California's death row, convicted in 2003 for the 1993 murder of two California boys – died from Covid-19 on July 3, 2020. He was incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison. Erskine grew up in southern California. When he was five years old, Erskine darted into traffic on the Pacific Coast Highway in Long Beach and was hit by a station wagon. He remained in a coma for 60 hours. Although physically he appeared recovered, he frequently complained to his mother about headaches, and he experienced "black-out" moments where he could not remember what he was last doing. At the age of 10, he started molesting his 6-year-old sister, forcing her to perform oral sex upon him. He soon began abusing her friends, threa...

3Jul

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United States

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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Brazil, High Profilers, Profiles

Wanderley Mariz, politician

Vigolvino Wanderley Mariz aka Wanderley Mariz ‑ a Brazilian Politician and Lawyer from the state of Rio Grande do Norte – succumbed to Covid-19 on July 2, 2020. Before pursuing a career in politics, Mariz went to college at the Fluminense Federal University and graduated in Law. In 1974, Mariz was elected Member of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies representing his birth state of Rio Grande do Norte. His first tenure went from 1975 to 1979. In 1978, he was re-elected Federal Deputy for Rio Grande do Norte. This time he remained in power between 1979 and 1983. In 1982, he was re-elected for his third and last term as a Federal Deputy. His last term went from 1983 to 1987. In 1986, he decided to run for a spot at the Brazilian Senate representing Rio Grande do Nort...

Shaquana Miller Garrett, hostpital registrar

3Jul

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Neighbors, Profiles, United States

Shaquana Miller Garrett, hostpital registrar

Shaquana Miller Garrett ‑ a married mother to two little girls who worked as a registrar, taking patient information at Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale – succumbed to Covid-19 on July 2, 2020. Miller was a diabetic, considered high-risk. Within days of her diagnosis, she needed to be hospitalized. She died on July 2nd. "She was 35 years old and she left a husband and a three-year-old and a four-year-old daughter here," Curtis said. But the Miller family barely had time to grieve because her 3-year-old daughter Kennedy is also now positive for COVID-19, fighting a fever. “My niece is three years old. She doesn’t have an underlying illness. She’s three,” Curtis said. Local10.com

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 ...

3Jul

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India, Neighbors, Profiles

Bhagirath Adhav, police officer

Bhagirath Adhav ‑ an Assistant Police Inspector from Maharashtra posted at Samta Nagar police station in Kandivali East ‑ succumbed to coronavirus on July 3, 2020. He had tested positive on June 26, and was admitted to Oscar Hospital in Kandivali West two days later. Dilip Sawant, Additional Commissioner of Police, North Region, said Adhav’s health was deteriorating and he passed away at 4.30 pm after suffering a heart attack. Adhav, 52, is survived by his wife, daughter and son. His younger brother, inspector Chimmaji Adhav, is in charge of Unit XI of the Mumbai Police Crime Branch. API Adhav was fitted with a pacemaker a few years ago, after he had suffered a heart attacked. He had been working throughout the lockdown, officials said, patrolling his beat in Samta Nag...

3Jul

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India, Medics, Profiles

Abhishek Bhayana, dental surgeon

Dr Abhishek Bhayana ‑ a junior resident doctor at Delhi’s Maulana Azad Institute for Dental Sciences (MAIDS) –suspected to have succumbed to Covid-19 on July 2, 2020. “I am having breathing issues. All my symptoms are of corona… I will be 100% positive,” said Dr Abhishek Bhayana (26) to his elder brother Aman (31) on July2, 2020, morning, hours before he passed away following complaints of chest congestion and breathlessness. He had tested negative twice for Covid-19. Abhishek was posted in the department of oral surgery of the dental institute. He secured rank 21 in the AIIMS MDS exam, and travelled to Rohtak on June 26 to appear for counselling. Abhishek’s family performed his last rites in the afternoon of July 3, 2020. His friends and colleagues remember him as a doctor with unma...