Bollywood superstar Aishwarya Rai and her eight year old daughter Aaradhya has tested positive for the coronavirus, just a day after her actor father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan said he was in hospital with the infectious disease.
Bachchan’s actor son Abhishek, Rai’s husband, said he too was positive but that both their cases were mild.
Abhishek Bachchan tweeted that they would remain in hospital “till the doctors decide otherwise”.
Aishwarya Bachchan, 46, is one of Bollywood’s most famous faces both in India and abroad, featuring in several Bollywood and Hollywood films.
She won the Miss World pageant in 1994 and is Goodwill Ambassador for UNAIDS. In 2003 she was the first Indian actress to be a jury member at the Cannes Film Festival.
Aishwarya and her daughter are said to be asymptomatic. Her husband tweeted to say they would be self-isolating at home.
Bachchan 77 and his son Abhishek, 44, were taken to Nanavati Hospital in Mumbai on Saturday.
Amitabh is currently in the isolation unit of the hospital, news agency ANI reported, quoting a public relations officer for the hospital. He urged anyone who had been close to him in the past 10 days to get tested.
His wife Jaya had tested negative, officials said. It was not clear whether results for other family members were yet in.
Mumbai municipal officials have since put up banners outside the actor’s house in the city, classifying it as a “containment zone”.
