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Timor-Leste’s Confirmed Coronavirus Death Toll Rises to Three Featured

By Camilio de Sousa April 23, 2021 266
Victim had various comorbidities. Photo Independente Victim had various comorbidities. Photo Independente

DILI: Timor-Leste confirmed its third death from COVID-19, the government announced Thursday, adding that the 61 year-old victim had various comorbidities.

Joao Mendonca, the victim’s son, told the Independente his mother Olga Mendonca died at the COVID-19 isolation centre  in Vera Cruz  on Thursday morning.

Joao said his mother had suffered a lung disease for two years, and did not believe her death was caused exclusively by COVID-19.

The increase in deaths in Timor-Leste has pitted proponents of strict COVID-19 protocol burying in Dili against customary burial proceedings .

Joao said the Integrated Crisis Management Centre had agreed to hand over his mother’s body to the family on Friday morning to carry out cultural traditions. The body will then be buried at Becusi public cemetery in Dili.

Health officials remain concerned that the virus continues to spread across Timor-Leste and have called for an extension of the countries’ thirteenth state of emergency past May 2.

As of Thursday, Timor-Leste has reported 1452 COVID-19 cases, with 731 recoveries and three deaths.

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