Brazil

Asdrubal Mendes Bentes a Brazilian politician and lawyer from the state of Pará was hospitalized in a Belém intensive care unit for coronavirus on April 23, 2020. He died from complications of COVID-19 at the Hospital Aberlardo Santos in the Icoaraci district of Belém on April 27, 2020, at the age of 80. He represented Pará in the national Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the National Congress of Brazil, for several tenures beginning in 1987. Most recently, he served in the Chamber of Deputies for four consecutive terms from February 1, 2001, to March 26, 2014. He was also a former president of the Paysandu Sport Club, a Brazilian football team based in Belém.

Gerson dos Santos Peres a Brazilian politician, lawyer and journalist from the state of Pará died in Belém from COVID-19. Gerson Peres was a lawyer by formation after finishing his law degree at Federal University of Pará, however outside of his political career he worked mostly as a journalists, employed by well known local newspapers such as O Liberal and A Província do Pará. As a politician, his first public position was as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Pará, which he held from 1955 to 1979. In 1978, Peres was indirectly elected Vice Governor of Pará, took office in 1979 and finished his tenure in 1983. In 1982, he was elected member of the Chamber of Deputies representing his birth state of Pará and after 4 consecutive successful reelections he remained a deputy...