(CNN) Jacqueline Towns, the mother of NBA player Karl-Anthony Towns, died on Monday due to complications as a result of the novel coronavirus, according to a statement from a Towns family spokesperson released by Towns' team, the Minnesota Timberwolves.

"The Towns family is heartbroken by the untimely passing of Jacqueline Towns due complications as a result of COVID-19," the statement said.

She had been "battling the virus for more than a month" when she ultimately succumbed to it, according to the statement.

Towns made his mother's struggle with Covid-19 public in an emotional video released in late March. In it, he announced that his mother had been put on a ventilator in a medically induced coma.

He said he shared the video in the hopes that everyone would stay at home.