China News Agency, Sao Paulo, May 16 (Reporter Mo Chengxiong) On the morning of May 16, local time, Bruno Covas, the mayor of Sao Paulo, the capital of the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil, died in a hospital in Sao Paulo due to ineffective cancer treatment. 41 years old.
According to Brazilian media reports on the 16th, Covas died in a hospital called "Syria-Lebanon" (Sirio-Libanes) in São Paulo that same day.
On May 2, Covas was admitted to the hospital due to a sudden deterioration of his esophageal cancer.
He entered the intensive care unit on the 3rd and was in a coma on the 14th. The medical team announced that his condition had been irreversible.
At 8:20 in the morning on the 16th, Kovas's treatment failed and eventually passed away.
Covas took office as the mayor of Sao Paulo, Brazil on April 6, 2018. He was diagnosed with cardia cancer in October 2019. After 8 chemotherapy sessions, he started receiving immunotherapy in February 2020.
Later, his cancer cells spread to the esophagus, lymph nodes and liver.
Covas was diagnosed with new coronary pneumonia on June 13, 2020. He was asymptomatic and he recovered after isolation and treatment.
During the epidemic, Kovas has been working with the disease and fighting on the front line of the epidemic.
Covas was born on April 7, 1980 in Santos, a coastal city in Sao Paulo. He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Politics of the University of Sao Paulo and the Faculty of Economics at the University of Sao Paulo. He was a lawyer and an economist.
He used to be the Director of the Environmental Bureau of the City of Sao Paulo, the Federal Member of the State of Sao Paulo, and the Deputy Mayor of the City of Sao Paulo.
His grandfather Mario Covas (Mario Covas) served as the mayor of Sao Paulo and the governor of the state of Sao Paulo.
Kovas married economist Karen Ichiba in 2004, divorced ten years later and remained single until his death.
He left a 15-year-old son after his death.
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