American Singer Pink donates $1 million to fight coronavirus pandemic
Grammy Award-winning singer Pink, who tested positive for COVID-19, has announced to donate $1million to the corona relief fund in the US.
Her donation will go across two coronavirus-related relief funds, with $500,000 each going to the Temple University Hospital Fund in Philadelphia and the COVID-19 response fund run by the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles.
Pink declared on Twitter that she had tested positive after she and her son started displaying some symptoms two weeks ago. Later, they tested negative when the tests were repeated, a few days ago.
Darn right I did. Shouldn’t we all? https://t.co/R5Y14EPjQT
— P!nk (@Pink) April 4, 2020
Her family had already been sheltering at home and continued to do so, she said.
The singer also called for free and widespread testing of the disease in her tweets.
“It is an absolute travesty and failure of our government to not make testing more widely accessible,” she wrote.
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— P!nk (@Pink) April 4, 2020
She added, “This illness is serious and real. People need to know that the illness affects the young and old, healthy and unhealthy, rich and poor, and we must make testing free and more widely accessible to protect our children, our families, our friends and our communities.”
