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South African great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi succumbs to covid-19
JOHANNESBURG : Satish Dhupelia, the South African great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, succumbed to COVID-19 complications here on Sunday, three days after his 66th birthday, a family member said.Dhupelia’s sister Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie confirmed that her brother had died of COVID-19 related complications after he contracted the disease in hospital where he had been under treatment for a month due to pneumonia."My beloved brother has passed on after a month of illness with pneumonia, a superbug contracted in hospital and then COVID-19 also contracted while he was being treated.He suffered a major cardiac arrest this evening," Uma said in a social media post.Besides Uma, Dhupelia leaves back another sister, Kirti Menon, who lives in