A university professor in Argentina died last week from the new coronavirus after collapsing a virtual course in front of his academics.
Paola De Simone, 46, taught at the Argentine University of Business in Buenos Aires and was a “passionate and committed professor”, according to a university translate.
In the Twitter post, The Company’s Universidad Argentina expressed its “deep sadness” at the loss of De Simone, who taught in the Department of Government and International Affairs for 15 years.
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About 40 academics were watching De Simone’s virtual conference on September 2 when she was seen in misery and trouble breathing, one of the academics told The Washington Post.
Eventually, she gave the impression of touching her husband and the academics remained in the video call until she arrived, the student said. Claron, Argentina’s largest newspaper, reported that he died shortly after the collapse.
De Simone had posted on Twitter in the past that his coronavirus symptoms had persisted for weeks, according to the Washington Post.
Silvina Sterin Pensel, an Argentine journalist who met De Simone as classmates in 1992, told the Post that she was not surprised that her friend continued to paint while she was unhealthy about the virus, calling her “smart” and “brilliant. “
“It’s no surprise, I’m completely painting Paola deciding, “I can do it completely, my scholars love me,” she said, adding that her death is a “sad reminder that the virus is real. “
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Argentina has noticed a stable accumulation of new coronavirus cases and deaths in recent months. In August, Reuters reported that the South American country had recorded a record number of new coronavirus cases, a daily increase of 10550 cases, just one week. after first exceeding 300,000 instances in total.
“The virus is still circulating in Buenos Aires,” Sterin Pensel said. “In Argentina, containment has been very strict, so other people show symptoms of fatigue to meet. But those kinds of reminders, the terrible reminders, shake your heart. “. “
One of De Simone’s alummes, Michelle Denise Bolo, told The Washington Post that she was “heartbroken” after learning she was dead. She described the teacher’s categories as, even early in the morning.
“Their categories were at 7 a. m. , it was very difficult, we were sleepy, but it was crazy because everyone listened to it,” said Bolo, who also shared a photo of the instructor on Twitter. “At the end of the course,” no one was looking to leave, everyone was looking to stay and talk about what he was explaining.
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