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Samvel Gasparov, film director
27May By Web TeamNo Comments
Noteworthy, Profiles, Russia

Samvel Gasparov, film director

Samvel Vladimirovich Gasparov ‑ a Russian film director and short story writer who worked for some time at the Odessa Film Studio ‑ died on 26 May 2020, at the age of 81, after contracting COVID-19 in Russia. Gasporov was one of the Russian filmmakers most interested in the Red Western form, having directed both Hatred and The Sixth One as well as the lesser known Bread, Gold and Pistol and Forget the Word "Death" in this genre. At the time of his death, Gasparov was married to actress Natalya Vavilova and had a daughter from a previous marriage.
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Gita Ramjee, virologist
2Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
India, Noteworthy, United Kingdom

Gita Ramjee, virologist

Gita Ramjee ‑ a Ugandan-South African scientist and researcher in HIV prevention – died of Covid-19 on 31 March 2020.   In 2018, she was awarded the ‘Outstanding Female Scientist’ award from the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership. She died in Umhlanga, Durban, South Africa, from COVID-19 related complications.   Gita Parekh was born on 8 April 1956 and grew up in Colonial Uganda before her family were driven into exile under Idi Amin in the 1970s. She attended high school in India before attending the University of Sunderland in England.   She graduated in 1980 with a BSc (Hons) in Chemistry and Physiology. She married a South African-Indian fellow student, Praveen Ramjee, and moved to Durban where she bega...
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