Dr Roberto Peñalba, Pediatric specialist
Panamanian Pediatric specialist, Dr. Roberto Peñalba, 59, died on March 28, 2020, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The Panamanian doctor who tested positive for Covid-19 after returning to Panama and having participated in the National Zalsa Day and other danceable events in Puerto Rico, allegedly died of complications related to the virus.
The information about the pediatrician, identified as Roberto Peñalba, was communicated on Twitter and confirmed to NotiCel by Richie Viera, producer of the radio program Nación Z.
This, in turn, informed NotiCel of having received the information from another Panamanian journalist, Álvaro Alvarado, former anchor of the RPCTV Panama channel.
In the middle of this month, the doctor became the sixth coronavirus-positive case in Panama. After learning abo...