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Colombia’s Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo has died of COVID-19 on Tuesday, President Ivan Duque confirmed.
Trujillo’s brother Jose Renan announced the death of the defense minister who tested positive to the coronavirus two weeks ago.
The 69-year-old minister became the highest-ranking government official to die from the virus that has killed almost 52,000 people in Colombia over the past year.
Trujillo was hospitalized in the Military Hospital in Bogota where he allegedly was kept in an induced coma after his health deteriorated last week.
In a video statement, President Ivan Duque said that “with profound pain and sadness I have received the news of the passing away of our defense minister.”
Posted : 2021-01-26 20:11
Updated : 2021-01-26 20:36
Colombian Foreign Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo attends a news conference following a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, Russia June 3, 2019. / REUTERS-Yonhap
Colombia s Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo has died from viral pneumonia related to COVID-19, the government said on Tuesday.
Trujillo was reported infected with coronavirus earlier this month and was transferred to an intensive care unit. He died in the military hospital in Bogota aged 69. The death of Carlos Holmes fills me with pain, a visibly moved President Ivan Duque said. Colombia has lost one of its best men.
Before serving as defense minister, from where he coordinated military and police operations in the fight against drug trafficking, illegal armed groups, illicit mining and other criminal acts, Trujillo served as foreign minister in Duque s government.
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BOGOTA, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Colombia’s Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo has died from viral pneumonia related to COVID-19, the government said on Tuesday.
Trujillo was reported infected with coronavirus earlier this month and was later transferred to an intensive care unit.
The Andean country has reported more than 2 million coronavirus infections, as well as close to 52,000 deaths due to COVID-19, the disease it causes. (Reporting by Oliver Griffin and Luis Jaime Acosta; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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