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The member of the New Parodiantes, Jorge Sousa Costa, died this Saturday 23, at the age of 93, a victim of covid-19, reported the structure to which he was linked for more than twenty years.
Speaking to the Lusa agency, the producer of the New Parodiants, Vítor Figueira, said that Jorge Sousa Costa had been hospitalized for five days at the Santa María Hospital in Lisbon, infected with the new coronavirus.
On Friday, after the actor had been in intensive care, the New Parodiantes received the information that Jorge Sousa Costa “was better and possibly was going to a ward, but unfortunately the outcome was this,” laments Vítor Figueira.
“We will remember him with the joy that he always transmitted to the entire team and the support he gave to the formation of new values,” he emphasizes to Lusa, producer of the New Parodiants, a cultural organization that emerged in 1997, the dissolution of Lisbon.
The group’s producer, “present in more than 60 radio stations”, highlights the “vast curriculum” of Jorge Sousa Costa and the “fundamental contribution to the training of new people.”
“He was an excellent actor and he comes out of school. I remember, above all, a person who made friends with tremendous ease, who was available to transmit everything he knew and his joy”, highlights Vítor Figueira.
Jorge Sousa Costa made his debut in 1959. At the National Theater he was part of the cast of “O Lugre” and, in the same year, he made several plays on television and radio.
The actor participated in several films, soap operas, television series and, since 1999, he was part of the Novos Parodiantes team, a group responsible for humorous radio programs and programs.
The Covid-19 pandemic has already claimed at least 2,107,903 deaths, the product of more than 98.1 million cases of contagion, worldwide, according to the balance of this Saturday, prepared by the French agency AFP.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Portugal has registered 10,194 deaths associated with Covid-19 and 624,469 infections with the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus.
This Saturday, 162,951 are active, an increase of 5,291 cases in the last 24 hours.
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