Colombian Defense Minister Hospitalized Over COVID-19 - Reports
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published January 14, 2021 | 03:30 AM
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 14th January, 2021) Colombian Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo has caught COVID-19 and has been hospitalized, Colombian media reported.
The minister was sent to a hospital in the city of Barranquilla, the center of the northern department of Atlantico, the Tiempo newspaper reported on late Wednesday.
City Mayor Jaime Pumarejo said that Trujillo was in a non-life-threatening condition.
Trujillo became the second minister of Colombia infected with the coronavirus, following Foreign Minister Claudia Blum.
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