Ken Shimura, comedian, dead at 70 from COVID-19 complications www.upi.com

March 30 (UPI) -- Ken Shimura, a famed Japanese comedian, has died at the age of 70 due to complications from COVID-19.
Shimura died of pneumonia caused by COVID-19 in a Tokyo hospital on Sunday, his agency Izawa Office confirmed.
The comedian was admitted to the hospital on March 20 with severe pneumonia before he tested positive for the virus on March 23.
Shimura was a regular on Japanese television and was a member of comedy band, The Drifters, along with Cha Kato, Boo Takagi and Joki Nakamoto.
Shimura is the first Japanese celebrity figure to die from COVID-19.