Bollywood star Aishwariya Rai Bachchan admitted to hospital with COVID-19
By AFP
20 July 2020 |
7:05 am
Bollywood actress and former Miss World Aishwariya Rai Bachchan is receiving treatment at a Mumbai hospital along with her eight-year-old daughter, joining her husband Abhishek and superstar father-in-law Amitabh, nearly a week after the well-known family revealed they had contracted COVID-19.
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