COVID-19

31.12.2021. BRASIL. Morreu, hoje, aos 64 anos, o ex-deputado federal de Mato Grosso Laudinir Lino Rossin (photo). Ele foi internado ainda nesta sexta-feira, com um quadro de insuficiência respiratória e renal, além de sintomas gripais. Chegou a ser entubado, no entanto, acabou não resistindo. Jornalista, Lino apresentava o programa Chamada Geral, da TV Brasil Oeste. Também trabalhava como apresentador do programa Giro Conti, da Rádio Conti.

28.12.2021. FRANCE. Grichka Bogdanoff (photo), notamment connu pour avoir animé l’émission de science-fiction « Temps X », diffusée de 1979 à 1987 sur TF1, est mort mardi 28 décembre à Paris, à l’âge de 72 ans. Grichka Bogdanoff avait été hospitalisé le 15 décembre dans le service de réanimation de l’hôpital Georges-Pompidou, après avoir contracté le Covid-19. il n’était pas vacciné contre la Covid-19. Il avait réalisé deux autres émissions scientifiques, pour France 2 – « Rayons X », de 2002 à 2007, puis « A deux pas du futur », entre 2010 et 2011.

28.12.2021. REPUBLICA DOMINICANA. Falleció por COVID-19 el periodista y publicista de Santiago de los Caballeros, Carlos Ramírez Báez (photo) en los Estados Unidos. Laboró como periodista del periódico La Información, productor de radio y televisión y uno de los propulsores de la tv en Santiago con su programa “Hechos y Gentes” de gran impacto y audiencia.

27.12.2021. ITALIA. Lutto nel mondo del giornalismo. È morto Giuseppe Savoia (photo), collega di 57 anni de “Il Quotidiano del Sud” che curava da decenni la cronaca dell’area ionica della Calabria. Ricoverato nel reparto di terapia intensiva, aveva contratto il Covid nei giorni scorsi nonostante si fosse regolarmente sottoposto a due dosi di vaccino.

27.12.2021. BARBADOS. Veteran journalist and publisher, Parry Bellot (photo) died Monday at the Dominica China Friendship Hospital, relatives have confirmed. They said Bellot, who was in his 70’s, had been a patient at the hospital for the past week. Media reports said he had been suffering from problems linked to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Bellot was the publisher of Link news magazine that first appeared in 1977. She also was a founding member of the Dominica Media and Communications Association.

26.12.2021. PORTUGAL. Nome incontornável da banda desenhada portuguesa, João Paulo Cotrim (photo), jornalista e editor, fundador da editora Abysmo e diretor da Bedeteca de Lisboa, morreu este domingo com covid-19, confirmou o JN. Tinha 56 anos. Natural de Lisboa, João Paulo Cotrim começou a trabalhar como jornalista aos 20 anos, na ANOP. Depois, passou pelo Expresso, O Independente, a Cosmopolitan, a Revista Ler, a Elle, a Máxima, a Marie Claire, a Oceanos, a Visão, a Grande Reportagem, a Colóquio-Letras, o diário alemão "Der Spiegel", o "Le Monde" e o suplemento "DNA". Colaborou também com a RTP, a SIC e a TSF.

26.12.2021. UNITED KINGDOM. The North Wales arts scene has been left reeling by the death of a musician and radio presenter who kept entertaining audiences right up to the end. Phil Hartley-Williams (photo) died on Boxing Day in his early 70s and is understood to have been battling Covid-19. In a near 42-year journalism career in North Wales, he contributed articles to the Daily Post via Prestatyn’s North Wales Press Agency before joining the North Wales Pioneer and rising to become its editor.

26.12.2021. SOUTH KOREA. 49-year-old Carlos Tejada (photo), a New York Times Deputy Asia Editor, died of a heart attack last week at a hospital in Seoul mere hours after getting a Covid booster shot. Mr. Tejada received a Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine in July. Tejada received a Moderna booster shot on December 16 and died of a heart attack less than one day later. “Double-vaxxed. Janssen-fueled, Moderna-boosted. Hey Omicron: Hit me with your wet snot,” Tejada boasted on Instagram on December 16. No clinical trials have ever been conducted to examine the safety or efficacy of mixing various types of these vaccines.

25.12.2021. BANGLADESH. The Financial Herald Editor and Ekushey Award winner Reazuddin Ahmed (photo) died of COVID-19 on Saturday. He was 76. Reazuddin, former president of the National Press Club breathed his last at United Hospital in Dhaka. He was taken to the hospital on December 16 for COVID-19 related complications and was undergoing treatment at the hospital's intensive care unit, as his oxygen level dropped. Reazuddin is the 68th Bangladeshi journalist killed by the deadly virus.

23.12.2021. BRASIL. Morreu por volta do meio dia de hoje (23), no hospital macro regional de Caxias, vítima de complicações da covid-19, a professora e advogada Elizângela Sousa (photo). Ela havia sido transferida após seu quadro clínico piorar no dia (14), em Barra do Corda (Maranhão), onde esteve internada. Elizângela Sousa teve parte de sua vida dedicada a comunicação. Á frente do programa Jitirana Noticia, aos sábados, ele se tornou o principal informativo semanal de Barra do Corda.

22.12.2022. SWITZERLAND. Roland Jeanneret (photo), qui a été de 1992 à 2012 la voix de la Chaîne du Bonheur, a succombé vendredi dernier à une infection au Covid-19 à l'âge de 74 ans, a annoncé un de ses proches, Christian Lüscher. Journaliste à la radio alémanique DRS, M. Jeanneret est devenu délégué de la Fondation pour la Suisse alémanique en 1991, puis responsable général de la communication en 2000. Il avait pris sa retraite en 2011.

21.12.2021. MALAYSIA. Former journalist for Utusan Malaysia and Kosmo! Terengganu Bureau,

Sapee Mat Junus (photo, 60), died at Sultanah Nur Zahirah Hospital (HSNZ) in Kuala Terengganu due to

Covid-19. His brother, Alias, said he was admitted to HSNZ two weeks ago and was confirmed to

be infected with Covid-19.

17.12.2021. POLAND. Rafał Boba (photo), the graphic designer of Przegląd Sportowy and Fakt, died as a result
of a coronavirus infection. He was 47 years old. In the past, Boba worked in "Super Express", where he was
a reporter. Later, he completed a page breaking course and became a graphic designer.

17.12.2021. ESPANA. El conductor de programas musicales y productor de Canal Sur Radio Juan Antonio Jurado (photo), de 56 años, ha fallecido víctima del covid tras dos semanas ingresado en el hospital Virgen Macarena de Sevilla. El profesional de la RTVAt uvo los primeros síntomas de la enfermedad el 5 de diciembre y falleció en la noche del jueves.

14.12.2021. GREECE. Veteran journalist, publisher and founder of the marginal party Free People Giorgos Tragkas (photo) died in Covid-ICU at a hospital in Athens early on Tuesday. He was 72 years old. He was not vaccinated. He was admitted to the hospital on December 4 with serious symptoms of Covid-19. Four days earlier he posted on social media that he was tested positive with the virus after contact with an infected person in the radio station where he was working. Tragas had enjoyed a long career in journalism, and had been among the best-known TV personalities in the early ’90s, when commercial stations made their debut in Greece. He had regularly appeared as a political commentator on primetime shows.

14.12.2021. GREECE. Respected journalist and author Rosita Sokou (photo) passed away on Tuesday. Sokou had been admitted to hospital a few days ago with Covid-related symptoms. The news was shared by her daughter on social media. Born on September 9, 1923, she had recently celebrated her 98th birthday and had just finished working on the second, larger and improved edition of her momentous autobiography ‘Rosita’s century’.

10.12.2021. POLAND. Janusz Szostak (photo) died suddenly, losing the fight against the coronavirus. The death of Janusz Szostak shocked all of Poland. The well-known investigative journalist and author of many books died at the age of 64. In Poland at least 13 journalists died of Covid-19 since 2020: Marek Lesiński (21.03.2021), a journalist known from Radio Gdańsk; Janusz Majka (21.02.2021), a journalist and icon of the Polish Radio Rzeszów; Marek Maldis (15.02.2021), a long-time TVP journalist, at the age of 72; The Polish Jesuit Andrzej Koprowski (30.01.2021) program director at Vatican Radio, 80 year-old; a popular Polish journalist, Jerzy Madejski (25.01.2021), at the age of 79; Krzysztof Łuszczewski (21.01.2021) co-founder and music director of Radio Nowy Świat; Stanisław Remuszko (26.12.2020), a freelance journalist and publicist, 72 years old; Piotr Wróblewski (18.12.2020), a journalist associated with Radio Opole and Radio Lublin, 70 years old; Tomasz Kuc (23.11.2020), a former journalist of Radio Kielce and former president of Radio Olsztyn, 58 years old; Stanisław Tekieli (20.11.2020), journalist, writer and translator, 55 years old; radio and TV journalist Jerzy Dynia (05.11.2020), 85 years old; Ryszard Miazek (30.10.2020), former president of Telewizja Polska and Polish Radio, former member of the National Broadcasting Council, 75 years old.

08.12.2021. BRASIL. Morreu na noite de ontem (08.12), em Cuiabá, vítima de complicações da Covid-19, o idealizador do Peladão, morador de Várzea Grande, o jornalista Cláudio Kiesqui (photo), 80 anos. Cláudio que também era radialista estava internado há cinco dias.

07.12.2021. TURKEY. Journalist-Writer Raşit Kısacık (photo) from Malatya died due to the Covid-19.

Journalist Raşit Kısacık (70), who worked as a journalist for many years in Malatya, Diyarbakır

and other cities and wrote about 10 books after his retirement, succumbed to the coronavirus.

06.12.2021. RUSSIA. Journalist Vasily Bykov (photo) died in Moscow. He covered the gastronomic life
of the city. This was announced on Monday December 6, by friends of the journalist on his Facebook page.
According to the Zensovet portal, the cause of the journalist's death was the coronavirus. Vasily Bykov covered
the life of the capital's restaurants and pubs, worked as the editor-in-chief of the Royal Cheese portal.

04.12.2021. INDIA. New Delhi-based veteran journalist Vinod Dua (photo) died of post-corona complications on 4 December 2021. Few months back his wife Padmavati Dua died of Covid-19 in a Gurugram hospital. He was also infected with novel corona virus but recovered. Since then he continued to be ill and finally passed away in a Delhi hospital on Saturday. Dua (67) is one the pioneers in television journalism of India and worked for Doordarshan and NDTV.

03.12.2021. BRASIL. Morreu o jornalista Pedro Oliveira (photo) aos 49 anos, vítima de doença súbita após contrair a Covid-19, avança a SIC Notícias. Pedro Oliveira desempenhava, atualmente, funções de diretor de parcerias e Novos Negócios e head of digital da Trust in News. Para além de ter sido, durante 17 anos, dirigente da revista Exame Informática e autor e apresentador do programa Exame Informática TV na SIC Notícias, o jornalista também passou pela rádio nos anos 90.

02.12.2021. ESPANA. El periodista Josep Maria Francino (photo), referente del periodismo radiofónico catalán, ha fallecido este miércoles a los 74 años de edad, según ha informado Catalunya Ràdio, emisora de la que fue director general. La covid ha sido la causa de su muerte, según ha señalado Diari de Terrassa, periódico local de la ciudad donde nació en 1947 y donde inició su carrera profesional.

02.12.2021. VENEZUELA. El doloroso fallecimiento del licenciado Igor García (photo) perdurará en el gremio periodístico larense, porque fue un profesional muy dedicado a sus labores, durante más de treinta años. Esa terrible enfermedad de COVID-19 le haya arrebatado su existencia. De EL IMPUSO pasó al periodismo institucional.

02.12.2021. BRASIL. No dia 2 de dezembro, acabou sendo anunciado nas redes sociais que Abel Freitas (photo) de apenas 36 anos de idade tinha morrido por conta de complicações da Covid-19. O jornalista comandava o programa Manhã na Band, em São José dos Campos, além da atração na TV, ele também era muito ativo nas plataformas digitais. Quem deu a notícia da morte foi o irmão do jornalista, Alba Freitas.

30.11.2021. USA. Marcus Lamb (photo), the co-founder of the leading Christian TV network Daystar who railed against Covid-19 vaccines, has died of Covid-19. He was 64 years old. Daystar (Texas) was founded in 1998 and has more than 100 TV stations around the world. Lamb’s wife Joni, appearing on the daily Ministry Show on Tuesday, said that he had “got the Covid pneumonia”. Lamb, who was the chief executive of the conservative network that reaches an estimated 2 billion viewers worldwide, died on Tuesday, weeks after contracting the coronavirus.

29.11.2021. NEW ZEALAND. A well-known Pukekohe newspaper editor who steadfastly refused to get vaccinated has died of Covid-19. Rex Warwood (photo, 80), succumbed to the virus in Auckland’s North Shore Hospital on Saturday. Warwood was for many years a reporter and editor for the Franklin County News in Pukekohe and later the owner of the Franklin Life, where he is remembered fondly by many in the community.

29.11.2021. BRASIL. O jornalista Luiz Fábio Campana (photo) morreu na noite deste sábado (29), aos 74 anos, em decorrência de complicações da Covid-19. Campana estava internado em um hospital de Curitiba, no Paraná, desde a quarta-feira (26). Fábio Campana estava vacinado com a CoronaVac.

29.11.2021. INDONESIA. Indonesia's music observer and journalist Benedict Benny Hadi Utomo has died from

Covid-19 on Monday morning, 29 November 2021. Known as Bens Leo (photo), the industry veteran

passed away while undergoing treatment at Fatmawati Hospital. He was 69 years old.

27.11.2021. RUSSIA. Famous journalist from Cherepovets Oleg Tsvetkov (photo) dies of COVID-19.

Oleg Gennadievich worked all his life in the media sphere - in the Cherepovets newspapers "Courier", "Rech"
(special correspondent and head of the news department), for many years he headed the newspaper
"Cherepovetskaya istina".

24.11.2021. KAZAKHSTAN. Sixty-eight-year-old dissident journalist and poet Aron Atabek (photo) has died while being treated in a Kazakh hospital for COVID-19, one month after his release from a long prison term. Atabek (aka Edigeev) was released in early October after serving most of an 18-year prison sentence stemming from a 2007 conviction for helping organize protests that resulted in the death of a police officer. Between 1989 and 1992, Aron Atabek was editor in the newspapers Alash and HAK, which were then illegal in Kazakhstan. In 1992, he founded the weekly Khak ("The Truth").

22.11.2021. RUSSIA. Journalist Artur Tatarenko (photo) died of coronavirus in Dubna.

He was only 37 years old. A few weeks ago, the man contracted the coronavirus, his condition

worsened, so he was hospitalized in Dubna Hospital.

22.11.2021. UKRAINE. Ukrainian journalist and politician Leonid Pilunsky (photo) died in Crimea.

Earlier it was reported that he fell ill with COVID-19. Leonid Pilunsky died in occupied Sevastopol

at the age of 74.

21.11.2021. ARGENTINA. Murió el periodista Guillermo Blanc (photo) dedicado al mundo de la farándula y el espectáculo desde la revista Radiolandia 2000. Estaba internado en sala de COVID en la clínica Unas de Adrogué. Miembro de la Asociación de Periodistas de la Televisión y Radio Argentinas (Aptra) desde su fundación, según versiones de sus familiares difundidas por las redes, habría sufrido una infección en la sala donde se encontraba internado.

20.11.2021. NORWAY. Former NRK journalist Lars Egil Mogård (70) passed away on Friday as a result of complications after covid-19. Lars Egil Mogård died at the University Hospital of Northern Norway in Tromsø as a result of complications after covid-19. The family informs NRK that Mogård was fully vaccinated. Mogård was known to many and a highly respected journalist, both inside and outside NRK. He has also worked for the newspaper Nordlys and several other media companies.

19.11.2021. RUSSIA. Famous journalist Nikolai Demin (photo) dies of coronavirus in Barnaul. He has been on a ventilator since October 10, reports the Union of Journalists of the Altai Territory. Nikolai Ivanovich was a veteran of journalism, for many years he worked at the regional radio, and in 2002 he founded the regional agrarian newspaper "Altai Niva".

19.11.2021. USA. Mark Farina (photo), a longtime PA announcer known for calling Chicago Public Schools sports, died this week. He was 61. Farina died Monday morning from complications of COVID-19 after being hospitalized, according to his loved ones and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office. Farina called Chicago Public League football, basketball and baseball championships. He also owned a communications company and was a published author.

18.11.2021. COLOMBIA. A los 81 años falleció de Covid-19 el veterano periodista Jorge Molinares (photo), de amplia trayectoria en la radio barranquillera. Su deceso se produjo en la Clínica General del Norte en donde estuvo intubado los últimos cuatro días. Molinares era pensionado de la empresa Monómeros, pero su amor por la radio la desarrolló paralelamente.

16.11.2021. BELARUS. The famous TV presenter Sergei Filimonov (photo) died tonight.  Journalist and
producer Sergei Budkin writes with reference to relatives that Filimonov died of COVID-19. Sergei Filimonov
is a Belarusian journalist and presenter. Sergei is known as the host of the cult program "Visibly invisible".
The program appeared on Belarusian television in 1992, and since autumn 2012 it has been broadcast on
the Belsat channel.

14.11.2021. ROMANIA. Dragoș Dumitriu (photo), former deputy and Sputnik journalist, died at the age of 57,
after a post-COVID heart attack. After being infected with coronavirus, Dragoș Dumitriu stayed in the hospital
for almost a month, and the treatment seemed to bear fruit. Now, however, he has died of a heart attack.
The death was announced by the publication Sputnik, where Dragoș Dumitriu, aged 57, worked as an editorialist.

13.11.2021. USA. James Hopkins (photo, 61) worked as a journalist, died suddenly November 12, in Moravia (NY), following complications related to a breakthrough case of Covid-19. He worked among other functions as a newspaper reporter in Little Falls.

13.11.2021. UKRAINE. Anatoly Pivnenko (photo), famous journalist of Ukraine, head of the Alex TV channel, passed away at the age of 71 in Zaporozhye.According to the newspaper "Position", Anatoly Pivnenko was hospitalized in serious condition, was in intensive care. Doctors fought for his life, but the coronavirus,  unfortunately, turned out to be stronger.

11.11.2021. BRASIL. Morre a jornalista Edna Nolasco (photo), vitima da Covid-19. Edna Nolasco, uma das jornalistas mais atuantes em Vitória da Conquista, sendo, atualmente, delegada do sindicato dos jornalistas na região. Edna lutava contra a covid-19 e estava internada no Hospital de Base.

07.11.2021. UKRAINE. Vladislav Lyashchevsky (photo), a journalist of the newspaper "Dnepr Vecherniy", had died in Dnipro. It is known that the man has been struggling with the coronavirus and its consequences for a long time, but unfortunately, his heart stopped on November 7. Vladislav Lyashchevsky worked in the "Prapor Youth", "Dneprovskaya Pravda", and since 2001 - in the "Dnepr Vecherny".

07.11.2021. BRASIL. O jornalista e professor Flávio Porcello (photo), de 70 anos, morreu em Porto Alegre na madrugada deste domingo (7) em decorrência da Covid-19. Ele sofreu falência múltipla dos órgãos após 38 dias de internação no Hospital São Lucas, da Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC).

05.11.2021. ROMANIA. Journalist Horia Dumitraș (photo) died a few days after he became infected with Covid-19.

The journalist was admitted to the ATI-Covid ward, but the doctors could not save him. Horia Dumitraș died on Thursday, November 4, at the Oradea County Hospital.

05.11.2021. RUSSIA. Russian poetess, songwriter, writer, translator and TV presenter Lyudmila Shipakhina (photo) died at the age of 87 in Moscow. The cause of death of the woman was the consequences of coronavirus infection. This was reported on the official Facebook account of the poetess.

05.11.2021. GERMANY. Holger Obermann (photo) dies at 85 of the consequences of a corona infection, although the restless pioneer of football and television was already double vaccinated. Obermann was known throughout Germany from 1971 to 1984 as a moderator of the ARD sports show and as a commentator who reported on five soccer world championships from 1970 to 1986.  Since 1990 Obermann has been traveling on behalf of the German Football Association and the National Olympic Committee and has sparked enthusiasm for football in East Timor, Cameroon, Bangladesh, Gambia, Sri Lanka and Australia.

05.11.2021. MEXICO. La comunidad periodística, amigos y familiares lamentaron el fallecimiento de Humberto Leal Valenzuela (photo), quien era el presidente de la Asociación de Periodistas de Ciudad Juárez. El también actor Humberto Leal falleció a los 65 años; el deceso ocurrió a consecuencia de complicaciones por Covid-19, informó Rosendo Gaytán, secretario general de la asociación.

04.11.2021. RUSSIA. The famous poet and journalist Sergei Yuryevich Sokolkin (photo) died at the age of 59 from the consequences of Covid-19. He was secretary of the Union of Writers of Russia, Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation.

03.11.2021. USA. Longtime Golden Triangle radio personality Jesse Block (photo) has died following a bout with Coronavirus in Texas. Jesse Narmon Block, 53, of Nederland, died late Friday night after battling the illness since early September. Block had worked for several radio stations in the Beaumont/Port Arthur area since the 1980’s. His radio days stretched all the way back to KAYC (“KC”) AM, and through the years he worked for KZZB (“B-95”) FM, KQXY (“94-Q”) FM, and KAYD (“KD97”) FM.

02.11.2021. UKRAINE. Honored journalist of Ukraine dies of coronavirus in Sumy. A sad event happened for the journalistic community of Sumy region: after a severe course of an insidious disease at the age of 68, Viktor Mikhailovich Boyko (photo), long-term head of the Sumy region newspaper and head of the Sumy regional organization of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine, left this world.

01.11.2021. RUSSIA. On November 1, at the age of 50, the journalist, art critic, curator and collector Alexander Panov (photo), who published under the pseudonym Fyodor Romer, died. According to art critic Milena Orlova, the cause of death was the disease caused by the coronavirus COVID-19. He worked for Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Itogi magazine, Kommersant Publishing House, Yezhenedelny Zhurnal, etc.

31.10.2021. IRAN. The Club of Iranian Journalists announced that Morteza Hosseini (photo), a photographer and reporter of "Shafaqna" news site in Iran, who worked in the field of Afghan news, has died due to the Coronavirus. Mr. Hosseini was 36 years old, a resident of Qom. According to reports from Iran, many unions, such as journalists, have not yet received the second dose of their vaccine, and according to the Ministry of Health, only one-third of the Iranian population has been fully vaccinated so far.

31.10.2021. ROMANIA. Well-known journalist Doru Dinu Glăvan (photo), a lifelong correspondent of the
Public Radio for Caraş-Severin, sports columnist and leader of the Union of Professional Journalists in Romania
(UZPR), died on Sunday, October 31, 2021. The famous journalist was 75 years old and was sick of Covid-19.

31.10.2021. VENEZUELA. La presidenta de la Fundación Casa del Periodista, Alecia Cristina Franco de Ortega (photo), perdió la batalla contra el Covid-19, luego de luchar por varias semanas con esta terrible enfermedad. Alecia Franco, estuvo al frente de los departamentos de Relaciones Públicas en las distintas salas de redacción de los principales medios de comunicación en Carabobo, entre ellos Notitarde y el Carabobeño, en estos últimos años fue asesora comunicación del Hesperia WTC Valencia.

31.10.2021. KAZAKHSTAN. Famous Kazakh sports journalist Yevgeny Gaidamakin (photo) dies of coronavirus in Almaty. At the age of 39, a Kazakh sports journalist, author of the Sports True Youtube channel Yevgeny Gaidamakin passed away, Kazinform reports with reference to the website of the Kazakhstan Football Federation.

31.10.2021. RUSSIA. Igor Kirillov (photo) - the man known as the face and voice of the USSR for three decades - has died from Covid-19 in Moscow aged 89. Kirillov was Soviet TV's chief newsreader and announcer. He informed viewers of the first sputnik in space, and delivered the communiqués of the Communist Party. He also anchored all major Soviet set-piece events: from Moscow's Red Square parades to communist congresses. In 2018 he was given the Order of Honour by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

30.10.2021. VENEZUELA. La reconocida periodista Rita Betancourt (photo) falleció este sábado, según información difundida en redes sociales, por complicaciones asociadas al coronavirus. Su deceso enluta al gremio periodístico y empresarial larense, a los que dedicó muchos años de su vida.

30.10.2021. BRASIL. Morreu Silvio Santos (photo), um jornalista, productor cultural e um dos fundadores da Banda do Vai Quem Quer. Aos 74 anos de idade, ele era mais conhecido como Zé Katraca na cidade de Rondônia e faleceu em decorrência de complicações causadas pela Covid-19.

26.10.2021. BRASIL. Morre o cartunista, chargista, músico e jornalista Lailson de Holanda (photo), devido às COVID, aos 68 anos, no Recife. Com passagens pelo Diário de Pernambuco, também publicou no Pasquim, MAD, Bundas, etc

25.10.2011. ROMANIA. Mihai Bădescu (photo), one of the most famous journalists from Pitești, died on Monday, October 25, at the Intensive Care Unit of the Argeş County Hospital in Piteşti, killed by COVID-19. Mihai Bădescu, one of the most well-known journalists in Argeş County, had been hospitalized a few days ago, after being infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. He worked for almost two decades at the weekly Jurnalul de Argeş, and for several years he had his own press website, entitled soaptereci.ro.

23.10.2021. RUSSIA. Famous journalist dies. “Echo of Moscow” Maya Peshkova (photo), a journalist and literary critic, died at the age of 75 from the effects of the coronavirus, reports the Ekho Moskvy radio station’s website, according to RIA Novosti.

22.10.2021. BULGARIA. The journalist Veselin Konstantinov (photo, 66) died. We are shocked by the sudden death of our beloved and respected colleague,who was killed in a few days by the ruthless COVID-19, the statement of the Union of Bulgarian Journalists reads.

20.10.2021. AZERBAIJAN. The deputy general secretary and head of media at the Azerbaijan Judo Federation has died at the age of 47, after contracting COVID-19. Elnur Shukurov (photo), also known as Ashraf Oglu, had been hospitalised since September before losing his battle against coronavirus, the International Judo Federation (IJF) has confirmed. He was considered one of the most famous sports journalists in Azerbaijan and is known for producing the first sports entertainment programme, called Sport Digest, on national television.

16.10.2021. ALBANIA. Journalist Artjan Tepelena (photo) lost the battle with Covid today at the age of 58.
The journalist was fighting the virus and had been hospitalized in the Sanatorium for a month. Artjan Tepelena has been a journalist, editor-in-chief at TVSH, news director at TV Alba and most recently was part of TVSCAN with a show of his own.

13.10.2021. UNITED KINGDOM. Globally acclaimed golf broadcaster and journalist Renton Laidlaw (photo) has died. He was 82. Renton was admitted to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee two days ago when he tested positive to Covid-19. Born in Edinburgh in 1939, started his journalistic career as a copytaker compiling sports results before moving to the Edinburgh Evening News where, after five years as a junior reporter, he was promoted to golf writer in 1962. Over the next 60 years, he moved into television and radio, while also continuing his love of writing, and rose to become one of the most recogisable voices and names in golf.

13.10.2021. BRASIL. Morreu na noite desta quarta-feira, 13, em Maringá, o jornalista Verdelírio Barbosa (photo), aos 80 anos. Referência do Jornalismo na cidade, Barbosa estava internado em uma UTI em tratamento de uma pneumonia, mas não resistiu. Verdelírio Barbosa era proprietário do Jornal do Povo.

13.10.2021. BRASIL. Após 35 dias internado em uma Unidade de Terapia Intensiva (UTI) do Hospital Cliame, em Goiânia, em tratamento da Covid-19, o jornalista, publicitário e servidor da Prefeitura de Goiânia, Fernando Contart (photo), de 69 anos, faleceu vítima do coronavírus nesta quarta-feira, 13.

11.10.2021. BRASIL. O fotografo Charles Wellington (photo), de 44 anos, morre no Hospital Geral de Roraima, vitima da Covid-19. Ele trabalhou por mas de dez anos como reporter fotografico na Assembleia Legislativa de Roraima.

10.10.2021. USA. A fully vaccinated 58-year-old journalist in Palm Beach, Florida has died September 19 following a breakthrough COVID-19 infection. He had received the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Vincent Konidare (photo) was vaccinated against COVID-19 and proudly sent a photo of his vaccine card to a longtime friend on March 24 but was diagnosed with the disease on August 2. Vincent Konidare worked at The Palm Beach Post for 35 years, beginning as a pressman and rising through the ranks to become advertising placement manager. He left the newspaper in December 2020.

08.10.2021. NICARAGUA. El periodista Nelson Sequeira (photo) murió al sufrir un paro cardiaco, tras contagiarse de covid-19. Sequeira fue colaborador de 100% Noticias hasta el 21 de diciembre de 2018 cuando fue allanado y confiscado por el régimen de Daniel Ortega. Tras la confiscación se dedicó a colaborar con las plataformas digitales La Mesa Redonda, del periodista Sergio Marín y con el analista político Jaime Arellano en el programa Jaime Arellano en la Nación.

08.10.2021. VENEZUELA. Con sintomatología asociada a COVID-19 falleció la noche de este jueves el periodista José Rafael Ramírez (photo) en Maracay. Ramírez fue un polémico periodista, que enfocó esfuerzos en develar la corrupción y las injusticias dentro del sistema penal venezolano, en especial en su natal Aragua. En su página noticiasjr.com reveló infinidad de hechos vinculados con corrupción.. Laboró para los diarios El Periodiquito y El Siglo, ambos en el estado Aragua; además ejerció en medios de Mérida, donde imprimió un semanario llamado El Estrado. También fue miembro de la plantilla de El Universal mucho antes de su cambio de dueños. Hace algunos años creó un grupo de whatsapp en el que incorporó a periodistas de todo el país, en el que se debatían temas de interés nacional.

07.10.2021. BANGLADESH. Dhaka-based senior journalist Arun Basu (photo) died of Covid-19 on 7 October 2021. Basu (68) passed away while undergoing corona treatment at Suhrawardy medical college hospital. He left behind his wife and a son.

07.10.2021. IRAQ (Kurdistan). Sulaimani-based Kurdish journalist Hersh Sangary (36, photo) died of Covid-19 on 6 October. The former KNN and NRT reporter was diagnosed with corona infection prior to his demise.

07.10.2021. INDIA. Veteran Odia journalist Vivekananda Dash (photo) died while undergoing treatment for Covid-19 at a private hospital in Bhubaneswar. He was 70. Dash is the Founder and Editor of fortnightly newspaper ‘Janatantra’, first published in the year 2001. He had worked with popular Odia dailies ‘Sambad’ and ‘Prajatantra’ and English weeklies ‘Eastern Times’ and ‘Organiser’ between 1971 to 2004.

06.10.2021. INDIA. Kochi (Kerala) based cartoonist C J Yesudasan (photo) died of post Covid-19 complications on 6 October 2021. Yesudasan (83) passed away while undergoing treatment at a private hospital. He bagged various honours including Swadeshabhimani Award, BM Gafoor Award, V Sambasivan Memorial Award, PK Manthri Memorial Award, NV Pylee Award, etc for political cartoons published in a number of media outlets including Malayala Manorama and Janayugom.

05.10.2021. INDIA. In a sad development, another journalist of Odisha has succumbed to Covid 19 infection. Young scribe Satyajit Mohapatra (photo) passed away at the age of 44 due to Coronavirus infection. Satyajit Mohapatra was the editor of ‘The Common Times’. He was under treatment in a private hospital for the last one month.

05.10.2021. ALBANIA. Famous sports journalist Kosta Grillo (photo) passes away. Sports journalist and commentator has died of coronavirus this Tuesday at the age of 59. He was treated in Turkey since August 27, but he could not defeat the virus.

04.10.2021. CUBA. El periodista cubano Juan Antonio Borrego Díaz (photo) falleció este lunes por complicaciones asociadas a la COVID-19. Durante 29 años, se encargó de reflejar en las páginas de Granma el acontecer de la provincia de Sancti Spíritus. Su labor como reportero, se combinó durante más de dos décadas con la dirección del periódico Escambray, un medio que bajo su conducción conquistó todos los premios de periodismo que se confieren en Cuba.