Bollywood superstar Aishwarya Rai tests positive for COVID-19 eNCA
Indian actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan arrives for the screening of the film"La Belle Epoque" at the 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 20, 2019.MUMBAI - Bollywood superstar Aishwarya Rai has tested positive for the coronavirus, her actor husband Abhishek Bachchan said Sunday just a day after he and his father, screen legend Amitabh Bachchan, were admitted to hospital with the infectious disease.
"Aishwarya and Aaradhya have also tested COVID-19 positive. They will be self quarantining at home... The rest of the family including my Mother have tested negative," Abhishek Bachchan tweeted.Abhishek said he and his father were positive but both their cases were mild. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan took the Miss World crown in 1994 and made her acting debut in the late 1990s.
The elder Bachchan, 77 -- idolised in India and affectionately known as"Big B" -- has a more than four-decade-long career in the film industry.He was voted"actor of the millennium" in a BBC online poll in 1999 and became the first Indian actor to gain a lookalike at London's Madame Tussauds waxworks museum.
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