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(MEXICO CITY) — One of Mexico’s easiest-known issue singers, Oscar Chávez, died Thursday at age 85 after being contaminated with the coronavirus.
Mexico’s custom secretary confirmed the singer’s death, and the Direct Workers’ Social Security Institute said he died of complications from COVID-19 after he was hospitalized on Tuesday with signs.
The institute said Chávez had “evident respiratory discipline” and had a power lung situation. It said he tested sure for the coronavirus and succumbed to COVID-19 associated pneumonia.
Chávez was easiest known for of us-vogue songs lampooning Mexico’s contaminated political elite. One such tune was “La Casita” (“The Puny Residence”), which described an imaginary politician’s mansion.
Culture Secretary Alejandra Frausto wrote in her Twitter anecdote: “Thanks, Oscar Chávez, your lifestyles was scurry worthy of you! My deepest sympathy to your relatives, chums and companions in war and tune.”
Internal Secretary Olga Sánchez wrote: “I bear learned to my deep remorse that a notify of the war has been silenced. My deepest sympathy to the family of Oscar Chávez.”
Chávez sang ballads since the 1960s and played in public as now not too long previously as 2019.
Mexico has reported 19,224 confirmed coronavirus conditions and 1,859 deaths.
On Thursday, Miguel Angel Osorio Chong, a dilapidated internal secretary and most modern senator for the dilapidated ruling Institutional Revolutionary Celebration, wrote in his Twitter anecdote that he had tested sure for the coronavirus and would self-isolate at house.
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