Alfa

Dragan Vučić ‑ a Macedonian composer, singer, philantropist and TV host – was suffering from lung cancer. His condition complicated after he had contracted COVID-19 in April 2020. The 65-year-old died on 4 May 2020 in the infectious clinic in Skopje. His most famous song is "Odlazim (Nikom nije nocas kao meni)", translation: "I'm going away (Nobody feels like me tonight)". Dragan was born in Skopje. Dragan composed numerous pop hits such as Svirete Ja Zajdi Zajdi, Angeli Me Nosat and Kaži Zvezdo. In the 1990s he was the lead singer of the pop-folk band Koda. He composed the song Make My Day, chosen to represent Macedonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005. Later in his career he started hosting various tv shows on Kanal 5.

A British doctor who dedicated nearly 40 years to saving others died on March 31 after contracting coronavirus. Dr Alfa Saadu, 68, died on Tuesday afternoon at the Whittington Hospital in north London. The doctor had been a medical director at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Essex and Ealing NHS Trust and worked at many hospitals in the capital. Tributes have been paid to Dr Saadu, including from the former president of the Nigerian Senate. Two weeks ago Dr Saadu started to show symptoms of coronavirus and immediately self-isolated. His son Dani Saadu said the family suggested he should go to hospital, but his father insisted he “did not want to take up a hospital bed because others would need it”. Mr Saadu added: “He was a very passionate man, who cared about sav...

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Dragan Vučić, Composer and singer

Dr Alfa Saadu, United Kingdom