MADRID: Spanish actor Antonio Banderas has announced today (Monday) that he had tested positive for the novel coronavirus and was in quarantine.
The Spanish actor took to Instagram and said, “I want to make public that I am forced to celebrate my 60th birthday following quarantine, having tested positive with COVID-19 disease.”
“I would like to add that I feel relatively well, I will recover as soon as possible following the medical indications that I hope will allow me to overcome the infectious process that I suffer and that is affecting so many people around the planet,” he added.
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The star of ‘The Mask of Zorro’ further said, “I will take advantage of this isolation to read, write, rest and continue making plans to begin to give meaning to my 60th year to which I arrive full of enthusiasm.”
With a career spanning more than 100 movies, Banderas was nominated in the Best Actor category of the latest edition of the Academy Awards for the lead role in Pedro Almodovar’s autobiographical movie “Pain and Glory”.
According to a tally, global coronavirus cases pushed past 20 million with the United States, Brazil and India accounting for more than half of all known infections.
The death toll from COVID-19, meanwhile, at more than 728,000 has outpaced the upper range of annual deaths from the flu.
