DC Mayor Bowser’s sister dies of COVID-19

Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, DC, announced her sister’s death from COVID-19 on Wednesday.

Fox 5 DC has reported that Mercia Bowser, the older sister, has died from the virus. The mayor said in a statement she was grateful to the doctors and nurses at the Washington Hospital Center “who heroically treated her for COVID-19-related pneumonia until her death.”

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“Mercia was immensely loved and will be dearly missed as she joins the legion of angels who returned home too early due to the pandemic,” she said.

Bowser took to Twitter earlier to call on her followers to remember the more than 1,000 people who have died in the district from the illness.