Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan’s coronavirus treatment highlights India’s inequality in access to health care

Although India saw a record jump in its tally of coronavirus cases over the weekend, the bulk of the nation’s attention was on Amitabh Bachchan, the country’s biggest film star, and his family, who are now among the 849,000 infected.The 77-year-old Bollywood patriarch’s image is ubiquitous across the country on advertisements for everything from hair oil to cement, and his infection – along with actor son Abhishek, daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai and granddaughter Aaradhya – ignited something…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3093046/bollywood-star-amitabh-bachchan-has-coronavirus-highlighting