Filipino singer Claire de la Fuente dies 3 days after Covid-19 diagnosis

The 62-year-old was unable to get a room after trying two hospitals. When she was finally admitted to a hospital, she died at the emergency room. Photo: Philippine Daily Inquirer

Veteran singer Claire de la Fuente, who rose to fame in the late 1970s as one of the decade’s “Jukebox Queens, ” and who as a businesswoman served as the voice of a major transport group, died on March 30, three days after being diagnosed with COVID-19. She was 62.

Her eldest son, Gregorio de Guzman, said his mother had a cardiac arrest in her sleep, which was believed to be related to stress and anxiety. De la Fuente was also hypertensive and diabetic, he said.