Powell was America’s first Black secretary of state, serving in that role under George W Bush from 2001 to 2005. He was fully vaccinated against coronavirus but had a compromised immune system having been treated for blood cancer.Īnnouncing his death, his family said they had lost a “remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American”. Powell, a retired four-star general who served as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff in the early 1990s, had been treated for Covid at Walter Reed national medical center in Bethesda, Maryland, where he died.
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