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.”
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