This archive report was first published on 19 July 2020.
On July 17, 2020, Indian actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and her eight-year-old daughter, Aaradhya Bachchan, were admitted to Mumbai's Nanavati Hospital after testing positive for coronavirus.
Just days earlier, her husband Abhishek Bachchan, 44, and her father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan, 77, were also admitted to the hospital, making them the highest-profile patients in India's COVID-19 epidemic.
Aishwarya Rai, a former Miss World, and her daughter had been in home quarantine before being admitted to the hospital.
According to The Times of India, the family is responding well to treatment, with a hospital source stating, "They all are ok. Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan will be in the hospital maybe for a day or two."
"They all are ok. Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan will be in the hospital maybe for a day or two," said a hospital source. — The Times of India
Spokeswomen for Aishwarya Rai and the Nanavati Hospital did not respond to requests for comment.
Aishwarya Rai, 46, is a renowned actress who has worked on several Bollywood and Hollywood films and serves as a brand ambassador for multinational companies including L'Oreal.
India has registered over a million coronavirus cases, the world's third-highest number, and more than 26,000 people have died of COVID-19. Partial lockdowns have been re-imposed in some densely populated areas to control the spread of the virus.
