Bombay (AFP)

Bollywood superstar and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and her eight-year-old daughter, who tested positive for coronavirus in mid-July and hospitalized in Mumbai, were discharged from hospital, Rai Abhishek Bachchan's husband announced on Monday. .

"Aishwarya and Aaradhya luckily tested negative and were released from the hospital," Abhishek wrote on Twitter, thanking fans for their "prayers and good wishes."

"My father and I are staying in the hospital," he added.

Aishwarya Bachchan, 46, and her daughter Aaradhya had quarantined themselves at their home but had to be transferred to hospital after reporting "difficulty in breathing", the Times of India said.

"They are doing well," a source at the hospital where the former Miss World's husband, actor Abhishek Bachchan, and her stepfather were, was then informed to the Press Trust of India news agency. and living legend of Indian cinema, Amitabh Bachchan.

Aishwarya Rai was crowned Miss World in 1984 and made her film debut in the late 1990s. She made numerous appearances on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival, gradually becoming one of the best-known Bollywood faces in the world. foreign.

Since the start of the epidemic in India, 26,000 people have died from the coronavirus.

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