London, April 14 : COVID-19 has claimed the lives of one Nepali almost daily this week. A former British Gurkha soldier has died again on Monday. He is 65-year-old Laxin Bahadur Gurung who lived in Redding outside London city. He passed away at 7am on Monday while under treatment at a hospital in Redding, said Kamal Gurung, a Nepali social worker here.
He had been hospitalised for the last two weeks and was kept on a ventilator of late. Laxin died when preparations were being made to remove him from ventilator support after doctors said that he has recovered now.
Originally hailing from Ghandruk, Kaski of Nepal he also had a house in Pokhara. Laxin also served as the President of Ghandruk Society Redding. As said by Kamal, Laxin was in good shape and neither was a smoker nor consumed alcohol.
So far nine Nepalis have died of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom and six of them are ex-British Gurkha soldiers.
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