Nigerian-British Rapper TY Dies Of COVID-19 At 47

Nigerian-British rapper Ben Chijioke,. popularly known as TY  has breathed his last in the battle against the deadly COVID-19.
TY had contracted the virus earlier in April and had been admitted to the hospital after medical complications related to the virus.
Reports have it that he was put in a medically induced coma to temporarily sedate him while on treatment.
Another update given on his state of health diclosed that he was doing better and was moved out of the intensive care unit.
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He, however, could not defeat  the virus and gave up the ghost on Thursday 7th May. He was said to have an underlying pneumonic condition, which contributed to the defeat to the virus.
Benedict Chijioke was born in London, to an Igbo family from Nigeria and had spent many years of his youth in the car of private foster parents in Jaywick, Essex,

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