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Quinton de Kock (Gallo Images) Earlier this year Quinton de Kock was handed the responsibility of captaining the Proteas' ODI and T20 sides on a permanent basis.The 27-year-old's first assignment was to lead a new-look South African side against reigning Cricket World Cup champions England.Coming off a 3-1 Test series defeat (under Faf de Plessis'…

A Santa Clara County woman now believed to be the first person in the U.S. killed by the novel coronavirus died of a ruptured heart caused by her body’s struggle to defeat the virus, her autopsy shows. Patricia Dowd, 57, of San Jose, died at home on Feb. 6 of what seemed like a heart…

The earliest known death in the U.S. due to complications from coronavirus occurred after an infected patient had a massive heart attack, an autopsy report obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle revealed.A 57-year-old woman from Santa Clara County, Calif., died on Feb. 6 and had traces of the virus in her heart, trachea, lungs and intestines,…

An illustration of the coronavirus. | CDC via AP SAN FRANCISCO — A Santa Clara County woman who is the earliest recorded death from Covid-19 in the United States died of a massive heart attack, according to an autopsy conducted by the county's medical examiner and obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle. The 57-year-old woman,…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A California woman whose death in early February is now said to be the first known COVID-19 fatality in the U.S. did not show any signs of the virus before dying, her father claims.“There were no symptoms, nothing,” the father of Patricia…