The U.S. singer Pink had tested positive for COVID-19, she said Friday, also announcing that she is donating $500,000 US each to two emergency funds. In a pair of tweets, she said she and her three-year-old son were displaying symptoms two weeks ago, and she tested positive after accessing tests through a primary care physician. "It is an absolute travesty and failure of our government to not make testing more widely accessible," she wrote. She announced she's donating $1 million US across two coronavirus-related relief funds, with $500,000 US 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. The Temple University donation honours Judy Moore — Pink's mother — who worked at the hospital's cardiomyopathy and heart transplant centre for nearly two decades, she said.

Source: CBC News April 04, 2020 03:10 UTC