Rafa Nadal calls workers on the “frontlines” of coronavirus fight “our heroes”
By Reuters
24 March 2020 |
6:38 am
Tennis star Rafa Nadal took to social media to send a message of solidarity and thanks to health care workers on Saturday as his home country of Spain is battered by the coronavirus.
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