According to Diari Mes, Ms. Paola De Simone, professor at Universidad Argentina de la Empresa University in Buenos Aries city, died on September 2. Earlier, while teaching online, Ms. Simone complained that she was feeling unwell and had difficulty breathing.
The 46-year-old faculty condition subsequently worsened, prompting the students to ask her for a home address for them to call an ambulance. However, Simone barely managed to say “I can’t”, before collapsing in the middle of the lecture.
Before the tragic days, Simone expressed concern over her health many times. She had persistent Covid-19 symptoms, including a cough – lasting for more than a month.
Media reported that her husband, a doctor, discovered Simone’s body when she got home. Simone left behind a daughter and previously said that her husband is very busy fighting a pandemic. Simon wrote on Twitter in late August: “I have been infected with the virus for more than 4 weeks and the symptoms have not gone away. My husband is exhausted from working too much.”
Video of Simone on Zoom has gone viral on social networks. Students, friends and colleagues all mourn the 46-year-old female professor. They called her a “memorable teacher”. One of her students, Anna Breccia, said: “You and my classmates were the last ones to talk to you. She said she had pneumonia and we found it worse than in the previous classes. Then she couldn’t seem to speak and stagger”.
Universidad Argentina de la Empresa confirmed the death of the female faculty member in a statement and confirmed that her departure left them “profound sadness”. The statement read: “Paola is a passionate and dedicated lecturer, a wonderful teacher with over 15 years of experience”.
Argentina is seeing a rapid increase in Covid-19 cases in recent times. Every day since August, the second largest country in South America has added about 10,000 new infections. Currently, this country reports a total of nearly 472,000 infected people, and 9,739 deaths due to the pandemic.