Colin Powell, the country's first black secretary of state, died on Monday after suffering complications from his chemotherapy treatment.

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According to his family, Powell, 84, has received all of his vaccinations.

According to his family, Colin Powell, the United States' first Black secretary of state, died early Monday morning following complications related to COVID-19. He had just turned eighty-four.

His family said on Facebook, "We have lost a wonderful and loving husband, father, grandpa, and a great American."

They also said that he had received all of his vaccinations and was being treated at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

Powell, a Republican, served as Bush's secretary of state from 2001 until 2005.