Covid-19 complications. The death of the 40-year-old Brazilian championship-winning bodybuilder has left family and friends stunned.Roberto Gervásio was known to follow a healthy lifestyle and he was in "such good shape" everyone believed he would recover.The athlete had been in hospital for a month and died on Saturday, December 12, according to his brother Kelvin Tavares, 27.He died in the Ana Carolina Moura Xavier Rehabilitation Hospital in Curitiba after 75 per cent of his lungs were compromised by the disease.Roberto, who was passionate about his sport, was the owner of a gym and had been practicing bodybuilding since the age of 27.At the end of 2019, he was crowned national champion of the last edition of the Sardinha Classic, one of.