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Luis Echeverria makes rare public appearance to get COVID vaccine.

Out of ICU.

Manmohan Singh hospitalised after testing positive for COVID-19, which is deeply ravaging India. A man in his general health condition would likely be fucked, but... he has got two doses of Indian vaccine Covaxin. That did not prevent him from getting infected, but is much more likely to prevent him getting serious symptoms.

Ganjam Venkatasubbiah (1913-2021) ಅವನು ಸತ್ತಿದ್ದಾನೆ, ಜಿಮ್! Age at death: 107 Known health issues: Unable to walk or even speak, extensive history of kidney disease. Cause of death: Kidney failure. Alignment: Kannada foremost lexicographer and adamant follower of Gandhi.

Lyssarides already on the list.

1) We have a sweepstakes thread 2) Navalny won't die at least in the next ten years.

Philippines most powerful crook businessman, Chinese-born Lucio Tan, hospitalised with COVID-19.

Improving.

Black Rob is dead.

Tigray Liberation Front leader and former Ethiopian Minister of Trade Fetlework Gebregziabher (wiki) is said to have been beheaded on April 13th. There is something on Twitter, but i could find no news articles. Also known as Monjorino, and probably the most powerful woman of Tigray.

They will keep him alive. A martyr is the last thing they want.

And now his son, gigantic dork HD Kumaraswamy, hospitalised with COVID.

Phantom is one of the few users here I'd absolutely trust even without a source. I think he's never been wrong before.

Tests negative . Expected to be released from ICU in the next few days.

Shahabuddin has been gravely ill for years. He looked like a skeleton in early 2018. On his 91st birthday he was reported to be "receiving treatment in Dhaka". Pakistani president Rafiq Tarar has been sick for at least four years and recently lost his wife.

Welcome (in a few days) to the Club China's best translator of Western poetry, Xu Yuanchong! Yes, another Chinese immortal geezer, we really needed one more.

Turkish PM Yildirim Akbulut, whose surname assumed the meaning of "useless" in Turkish language, dead at 85.

And it was.

Dead.

And now Obama's stepmother Keziah Onyango is dead too, at 81.

Two assholes of completely different political factions: Caviar gauche icon, uptown radical chic former President of the Chamber of Deputies Laura Boldrini underwent surgery for esophageal cancer. Art critic, right wing exhalted twat, COVID negationist Vittorio Sgarbi apparently diagnosed with cancer and in need of radiotherapy. Also had various heart issues before.

Sarawak decrepit 99-year old Governor Abang Muhammad Salahuddin (wiki) becomes a widower for the second time as his 72-year old second wife is dead.

Hmmm... he got a CGTN Africa (??) obit, which is the second more importanta in China after Xinhua. As a comparison, Phil got breaking news on Xinhua.

Ok, as an Italian here's my point of view: here EVERYONE knows who Prince Philip was, almost NO ONE knows who DMX was. That's it.

So right now it's 2 from Murica, 1 from Europe and 3 from Africa. None from Asia. Who's there from each country? India Dilip Kumar (1922) S.A.S. Geelani (1929) Saalumarada Thimmakka (1911) Fauja Singh (1911) VS Achuthanandan (1923) KR Gowri Amma (1919) Philipose Mar Chrysostom (1918) G. Venkatasubbiah (1913) Mulayam Singh Yadav (1939) Lata Mangeshkar (1929) Kaikala Satyanarayana (1935) Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (1944) Laos Khamtai Siphandon (1924) Nepal Satya Mohan Joshi (1920) Pakistan Rafiq Tarar (1929) Bangladesh Shahabuddin Ahmed (1930) Philippines Juan Ponce Enrile (1924) Cesar Virata (1930) Joseph Estrada (1937) China Ma Shitu (1915) Wan Haifeng (1920) Jiang Zemin (1926) Hu Qili (1928) Zou Yu (1920) Chen Ning Yang (1922) Tsung Dao Lee (1926, living in US) Song Ping (1917) Wan Hangbin (1925) Zhu Rongji (1928) Yan Mingfu (1931) Wang Huo (1924) Vietnam Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Tran Thiem Khien (1925, living in US) Burma Tin Oo (1927) Japan Yuriko, Princess Mikasa (1923) Kane Tanaka (1903) Bhutan Ashi Tashi Dorji (1923) North Korea Ri Yong-mu (1925) Yang Hyong-sop (1925) Malaysia Mahathir Mohamad (1925) Kuwait Saleh Ajeery (1920) Iran Lotfollah Safi Golpaygani (1919) Yes, I don't think about Kuwait and Iran when thinking about Asia, but let that be...