Amitabh Bachchan tests positive for Covid-19 again

Even as Mumbai reported a spike in Covid-19 cases, Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan announced late on Tuesday night that he had tested positive and urged “all those that have been in my vicinity and around me, please get yourself checked and tested also”.

"I have just tested Covid positive," the Sholay star took to Twitter to make the announcement. "All those that have been in my vicinity and around me, please get yourself checked and tested also."

The much-loved actor has been hosting Season 14 of Kaun Banega Crorepati. It is to be seen if his health condition affects his appearances on the popular reality TV quiz show. 

Bachchan, who will next be seen on the big screen in Ayan Mukerji’s Brahmastra – Part One: Shiva, Uunchai, Goodbye and the much-awaited Adi Purush with Telugu star Prabhas, had tested positive for July 2020 and isolated himself in Mumbai’s Nanavati Hospital.

His son Abhishek Bachchan had also tested positive, followed by daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and granddaughter Aradhya. Big B returned home after a three-week stay in hospital. 

Abhishek told his followers on July 27 on Twitter, “Thank you all for your continued prayers and good wishes. Indebted forever. Aishwarya and Aaradhya have thankfully tested negative and have been discharged from the hospital. They will now be at home. My father and I remain in hospital under the care of the medical staff.”

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