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Latter-day Saint mission president dies after battling COVID-19 for weeks

60-year-old Argentine church leader had been serving in Bolivia. He becomes the eighth full-time LDS missionary to die this year.

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) José Maria Batalla, who has died after a nearly two-month battle with COVID-19, and Valeria Batalla. The couple led the Bolivia Cochabamba Mission.