Veteran Actor Prem Chopra, Wife Hospitalised After Testing Positive

A throwback of Prem Chopra. (courtesy: prem_chopra_official)

New Delhi:

Veteran actor Prem Chopra and his spouse Uma Chopra, had been admitted to Mumbai’s Lilavati Hospital on Monday after testing constructive for COVID-19, information company PTI reported. According to Dr Jalil Parkar, the 86-year-old actor is prone to be discharged in “a day or two,” reported PTI. “Prem Chopra and his wife tested positive for covid-19 and were admitted under Dr Jalil Parkar in Lilavati hospital for treatment. They both have received the monoclonal antibody cocktail and are recuperating well. Hopefully (he) will be discharged in a day or two. At the age of 86 years (he) is responding quite well,” Jalil Parkar stated in a press release, PTI reported.

Bollywood veteran Prem Chopra is best-known for taking part in iconic roles in movies like Bobby, Do Raaste, Upkaar, Purab Aur Pashchim, Kati Patang and Phool Bane Angaarey to call a couple of.

In phrases of labor, Prem Chopra was not too long ago seen sharing display screen area with Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukerji in Bunty Aur Babli 2.

Prem Chopra is the most recent Bollywood actor to have contracted the virus. Other celebs who’ve examined constructive for COVID-19 not too long ago, embrace John Abraham and his spouse Priya Runchal, producer Ekta Kapoor, actors Mrunal Thakur, Nora Fatehi, Alaya F, veteran filmmaker Rahul Rawail, producer Rhea Kapoor and her filmmaker-husband Karan Boolani.

(With inputs from PTI)