As the days go by, more and more public figures are testing positive caught with the deadly coronavirus. Singer Pink announced Friday evening that she and her son tested positive for COVID-19. They are among many others who tested positive this week. See the gallery below for the latest.
Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson were the first celebrities to come out with the Coronavirus. Since then many celebrities and sports figures have tested positive for COVID-19. Rapper Slim Thug took to Instagram to reveal he has tested positive for COVID-19. The news comes hours after African saxophonist Manu Dibango died of the CoronaVirus COVID-19 on March 24th.
See the full list below.
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Official List Of All Celebrities With The Coronavirus ( Updated April 13th) was originally published on rnbphilly.com
1. Timberwolves player Karl Anthony Towns hugs his parents after a game.
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COVID-19 struck the basketball world one month ago today and now, it has tragically affected one of the league’s best young players. Minnesota Timberwolves’ center Karl-Anthony Towns‘ mother, Jacqueline Towns has passed away.
Jacqueline was diagnosed with COVID-19 in late March and was placed in a medically induced coma. The NBA star urged fans as well as the community as a whole to take the virus seriously and pray for his mother.
Karl-Anthony’s father, Karl Towns was also diagnosed with COVID-19 but has recovered from the virus. Thoughts and prayers to the Towns family.
RELATED: John Calipari Provides Update On Karl-Anthony Towns’ Mother’s Battle With Coronavirus
2. Bebe Winans
In an interview with SiriusXM’s The Joe Madison Show the Gospel icon BeBe Winans said: “I don’t know why, but sometimes we believe that, and even myself being cautious, when the outbreak started, I did just a little travel. I was actually in New York and I was like, well, I’m going to Detroit because I had a friend pass and we were having a funeral and just that little travel, I caught it.” BeBe Winans admits in the recent interview that he too had the mentality that he could not contract it and even though he say’s he was cautious somehow got it, but he did not require hospitalization. However in the same interview he revealed that his brother who had also tested positive did require hospital treatment for 4 or 5 days as well as his mother. BeBe also said that although he is a man of faith he admits that you do have to use common sense in the battle of COVID-19. BeBe say’s that he is now on the recovering side of the coronavirus.
3. P!NK and son Jameson
4. Jazz Pianist Ellis Marsalis Jr. Passed Away Due To COVID-19
5. Brooke Baldwin
6. Designer Jenny Polanco
7. Celebrity Chef Floyd Cardoz Dies of Coronavirus in New Jersey at 59
8. Chris Cuomo
9. Scarface
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10. Prince Charles, Prince Of Wales
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11. Slim Thug
12. Manu Dibango
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13. Boris Johnson
14. Harvey Weinstein
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15. Andy Cohen
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16. Kevin Durant
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17. Idris Elba
18. Sabrina Dhowre Elba
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19. Daniel Dae Kim
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20. Indira Varma
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21. DJ Black N Mild
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22. Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, the wife of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,
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23. Callum Hudson-Odoi of Chelsea during the Premier League
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24. Australia’s former home affairs minister Peter Dutton
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25. Arsenal’s Spanish head coach Mikel Arteta
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26. Marcus Smart
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27. Francis Suarez
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28. U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)
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