Mumbai: Veteran Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan tested positive for COVID-19 on Saturday, July 11.
It can be noted that the veteran actor was admitted to Mumbai’s Nanavati Hospital on Saturday evening.
Taking to Twitter, the 77-year-old confirmed the news writing, “T 3590 -I have tested CoviD positive .. shifted to Hospital .. hospital informing authorities .. family and staff undergone tests , results awaited .. All that have been in close proximity to me in the last 10 days are requested to please get themselves tested ![sic]”
T 3590 -I have tested CoviD positive .. shifted to Hospital .. hospital informing authorities .. family and staff undergone tests , results awaited ..
All that have been in close proximity to me in the last 10 days are requested to please get themselves tested !— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) July 11, 2020
His family members and staff have also been tested for the disease and their results are awaited, he said, requesting those who have been in close contact with him over the past few days to quarantine themselves.
Bachchan was last seen in Shoojit Sircar’s “Gulabo Sitabo” along with Ayushmann Khurrana.