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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,...

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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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...

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...

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...

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

2Jul

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Ghana, High Profilers, Profiles

Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, politician

Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie aka Sir John ‑ a Ghanaian lawyer and politician – died from Covid-19 on July 1, 2020. He held several political positions including serving as general secretary of the New Patriotic Party. He was serving as the Chief Executive Officer of Forestry Commission of Ghana before his demise. Kojo Afriyie was born in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. He attended Seventh Day Adventist Secondary School in Bekwai from where he obtained his GCE Ordinary level certificate. He proceeded to obtain his GCE Advanced level certificate from Konongo Odumase Secondary School in Konongo. He was admitted to study political science at the University of Ghana. He then enrolled at the Ghana School of Law where he graduated with Bachelor of Laws. After this he was admitted as a s...

1Jul

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India, Neighbors, Noteworthy, Profiles

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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Davinder Pal Singh, TV news anchor

Davinder Pal Singh ‑ a 43-year-old senior journalist with the PTC Punjabi TV channel who had tested positive for Covid-19 ‑died in a private hospital on June 20, 2020. Singh, a resident of Phase-10, was suffering from post renal transplant complications when he was hospitalised on June 13 after testing positive for Covid-19. However, even though he was released after recovery, Davinder Pal Singh was admitted to hospital again on June 29, 2020 after a cardiac arrest, and died the next day. The administration has counted him among Covid-19 fatalities. Mohali civil surgeon Dr Manjit Singh said the journalist was cremated as per protocol under the observation of health officials. “We will collect the samples of his family members and will also trace his contacts,&rdq...