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The recently elected congressional congress Luke Letlow murió este martes por complicationes derivadas de la enfermedad de COVID-19 and converts, according to local media, in the first representative of the North American legislative power of the country that falls by coronavirus.
Letlow, a 41-year-old Republican, has been elected to represent the fifth district of Louisiana state and debía prestar juramento el proximo domingo.
The legislator, who was in charge and had ten short-term marriage, announced the move December 18 which is a lie to be informed that it has positive coronavirus. He was admitted to the hospital shortly after.
The Governor of Louisiana, John Bel Edwards, ordered that the banderas ondeen a media asta the day of the funeral of the congressman.
“It is with great pity that I apologize and offer our condolences to the family of the elective congressman Luke Letlow for his failure to fight COVID-19”, Edwards wrote in his Twitter account.
“I was disappointed because I could not serve our people as Representative of the United States, but I was even more devastated by my family”, añadió. Letlow does not have any pre-existing conditions that Pudieran has raised the chances of mourning the illness, indicating one of the hospital’s doctors in the failure of a local media.
Según The New York Times, which quotes as source Ballotopedia, an online encyclopedia on politics, Letlow is the first federal electo official to fail at EE.UU. due to the illness of COVID-19. The first member of the Federal Governor’s murmur was a jukez. He also failed as a consequence of the enmity of state congressmen: a Republican from the Minnesota Senate in another in New Hampshire.
Letlow won a second election in December against another Republican for succeeding Congressman Ralph Abraham, who has been the staff leader.
The Democrat leader in the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, published a statement respecting and indicating that “this night the Chamber is sadly lamenting the failure of the congressional elect Luke Letlow”.
“The Letlow congressman was a new generation luscious who was eager to defend his point of view and dedicated his life to public service,” he said.
For his part, the leader of the Republican minority in the chamber, Kevin McCarthy, expressed in a document that “our hearts are rooted in this night while we process the notice of the death of the congresswoman Letlow”.
United States is the country with more coronavirus cases in the world, with more than 19.5 million positives and more than 338,000 failures, according to Johns Hopkins University. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC, for its English flags), estimates that Wednesday the death toll will reach 400,000 at the moment Donald Trump ends his term, January 20th.
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