(WWJ) -- Former Joint Chiefs chairman and secretary of state, Colin Powell, has died from COVID-19 complications.
In a statement on Monday, Powell’s family said he had been fully vaccinated.
He had been receiving treatment at Walter Reed Medical Center.
“General Colin L. Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, passed away this morning due to complications from Covid 19. He was fully vaccinated,” the family said in the statement. “We want to thank the medical staff at Walter Reed National Medical Center for their caring treatment. We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American.”
Powell, a retired four-star general, was the first Black secretary of state in the United States. He was 84.
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