Longtime CBS journalist Maria Mercader dies from coronavirus at 54
Longtime CBS journalist Maria Mercader died Sunday from the coronavirus, CBS News announced.
Mercader, 54, died in a New York hospital, according to CBS. She had been on medical leave for an unrelated matter since February.
"Even more than her talents as a journalist, we will miss her indomitable spirit," Susan Zirinsky, president and senior executive producer at CBS News, said in a tweet from "CBS Evening News." "Maria was part of all of our lives."
Mercader had fought cancer and related illnesses for more than 20 years, according to CBS.
Mercader started at CBS News in 1987 as part of the CBS page program and throughout her career worked on the CBS News foreign and national desks.
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