However, while those young, healthy professionals experienced little more than tedious isolation and inconvenience from the virus, the 58-year-old Insua was not so fortunate.
His condition rapidly deteriorated and, after several days in intensive care in critical condition, he passed away on Wednesday in a hospital close to his home in Grand Bourg, Buenos Aires Province.
He became the latest victim of a pandemic that continues to ravage almost all of the South American continent and is now jeopardising the playing of the Copa America on Argentine soil.
Barely a week has passed since the tournament – already delayed for a year due to coronavirus – lost the first of its two co-hosts.
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From Colombia and Argentina to Chile or USA? Copa America hosts hit by Covid-19 chaos
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