Moroccan pop singer Saad Lamjarred has postponed the release of his upcoming song, "Adda el Kalam" following the death of veteran Egyptian actress Ragaa El-Gedawy.
Lamjarred announced the news via Instagram stories, saying: "Out of respect for the veteran Egyptian actress Ragaa El-Gedawy, I decided to postpone the release date of my new track. I will inform you soon about the new release date."
He concluded: "May God have mercy on Mrs. Ragaa El-Gedawy and grant her entrance to Paradise."
Lamjarred pushed back the release of his new song for 3 days, which will be his first time present an Egyptian dialect song. It is by the lyrics of Amir Teima, and composed by Aziz El Shafei.
El-Gedawy, whose career has spanned for over six decades, passed away at the age of 81, after spending over 41 days battling coronavirus at the Abu Khalifa Isolation Hospital in Ismailia.
Amira Hassan Mokhtar, the actress’ daughter, has announced on Sunday her mother’s death. The 81-year-old actress has been transferred on June 2 into the ICU, after the deterioration of her health condition.
El-Gedawy was transferred immediately to the ICU after she felt shortness of breath, headache, and circulatory collapse in the early hours of the morning.
The veteran actress was infected with the novel coronavirus, on the 27th of Ramadan, after finished filming TV series “Leabah El Nesian” (Oblivion Game), which achieved great success during its premiere in Ramadan.
El-Gedawy entered the isolation on the night of Eid Al-Fitr.
Tributes poured in on social media, as soon as the news circulated, wishing the star a safe and healthy recovery.
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The virus is a new member of the Coronaviruses group, which was never identified in humans. The viruses’ family also includes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV), and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV), which cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases.
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On February 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the official name for the disease caused by the new coronavirus is Covid-19, taken from the words “corona”, “virus” and “disease”.
In December 2019, an outbreak was reported in Wuhan, China. On 31 December 2019, the outbreak was traced to a novel strain of coronavirus, which was given the interim name 2019-nCoV by the World Health Organization (WHO), it was later renamed SARS-CoV-2 by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses.
On March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared coronavirus a global pandemic as the new virus has rapidly spread to more than 800,000 people from Asia to the Middle East, Europe, and the United States.
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