After the State Steering Committee of the National Action Party (PAN) Party (PAN) in Nayarit shared the news of the death of Gustavo Montijo Talamantes, father of the presenter Galilea Montijo on August 5, the The latter acknowledged in the "HOY" program that her father died of COVID-19.

Despite the fact that she did not have a good relationship with Gustavo, Galilea clarified that she supported her mother, as well as emphasizing that she did not spend much time with him. “Despite having few and very vague memories of my childhood with my dad, of course, his departure saddens me. And about 10 years ago he decided to return to Guadalajara with my mother, because I accepted it for my mother's happiness, that has always been my intention, to see my mother happy (...) Now that my father is gone I have to keep watching for my mom.”

In addition, the host of “HOY” sent a message to people who are going through a similar situation, hoping they will receive your love and not lose faith in God, in addition to continuing to take care of themselves, because his father was hospitalized for 10 days even taking both doses.

According to the Inegi, COVID-19 was the second cause of death in 2020, since 201,163 people died that year, 60% higher than the number officially reported by the Ministry of Health.

OTHER CELEBRITIES WHO LOST FAMILY MEMBERS TO COVID-19

Óscar Salazar, the medalist who won two medals in Tae Kwon Do for Egypt also lost his father last year to COVID-19. Reinaldo Salazar, was also an athlete and coach of Tae Kwon Do for the Mexican team and winner of the 2006 National Sports Award. He passed away last year from COVID-19, so he Óscar dedicated the bronze medals to his memory.

Eloísa Ahumada de Bacca, the mother of Colombian soccer player Carlos Arturo Bacca lost the fight against the SARS-Cov-2 virus. The 60-year-old woman was under observation due to the deficiencies in her lungs, she died in the early morning of Tuesday, June 1.

Ricardo Franco, actor from Televisa lost both of his parents in less than a week due to coronavirus. Through a photo on Instagram, he said goodbye with a message

“I say goodbye with great strength and very proud to have parents like you! Now they are together yesterday you said goodbye to my mom I saw your soul in my house I know they are together my loves left hand in hand and my dad as always there he was waiting for you to go with him, today I face his departure the way The most beautiful with which you taught me and is to love to be good and above all always believe in God have faith and be strong..."

Pepe Guardiola, former player and Spanish soccer player, lost his mother on April 6, 2020, Dolor Sala Carrió died at age 82 after contracting coronavirus. At that time, the Manchester City team mourned his death on his Twitter account.

Later, the former soccer player donated one million euros to the Ángel Soler Daniel Foundation in Barcelona to purchase medical supplies and fight the pandemic.

In August 2020, Itatí Zucchi, mother of actress Itatí Cantoral, died of complications from COVID-19. The actress told Ventaneando in an interview that her work has been very helpful so that the pandemic is not so heavy for her.

In the interview, she also confessed that her mother had serious problems after testing positive for COVID-19, for which she was hospitalized. The actress commented that they had the opportunity to speak with her for the last time.

“My mother was infected by a nurse, she spent 30 days in the covid hospital and died when they let her out of the hospital, but she died as a result of everything that the covid had also done to her, it destroyed her lungs. Unfortunately my mother died, not from covid, but she did go through covid and covid helped her die”, recounted Itatí Cantoral.

After the death of her mother, Itatí confessed that she had COVID-19 but she was asymptomatic. She also stressed that in terms of this pandemic and the care of both her family and her staff, she has spent more than 100,000 pesos.

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