Akshay Kumar In Hospital With COVID-19; Two Other Actors Test Positive

On Monday, Bhumi Pednekar and Vicky Kaushal, co-stars of new film Mr Lele, also announced that they had tested positive for COVID-19

It's been a particularly blue Monday for Bollywood - two actors announced that they have tested positive for COVID-19 while Akshay Kumar has been hospitalised with the virus. On Sunday, fresh COVID-19 infections crossed a lakh for the first time, the highest daily spike in new cases so far. Mumbai recorded over 11,000 new infections - Maharashtra has been the worst-hit state and the Uddhav Thackeray-led government has announced a weekend lockdown in addition to a night curfew and other restrictions. On Monday morning, Akshay Kumar announced on social media that he has been hospitalised as a "precautionary measure." Read his post here. pic.twitter.com/2M9GHSCwWX 🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/w9Q7m54BUN