{"id":16141,"date":"2020-08-11T12:04:50","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T07:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=16141"},"modified":"2020-08-11T12:04:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T07:04:50","slug":"antonio-banderas-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/16141","title":{"rendered":"Antonio Banderas tests positive for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>OVIEDO, Spain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Spanish actor Antonio Banderas announced on Monday that he has tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came on the day of his 60th birthday, which he said will be spent in quarantine.<\/p>\n<p>The Academy Award-winning actor said he feels \u201crelatively good, just a little more tired than usual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll take advantage of this isolation to read, write, rest and continue making plans to begin giving meaning to my 60 years, which I\u2019ve arrived at full of enthusiasm and hope,\u201d he wrote on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Other major film stars to be diagnosed with corona virus include Tom Hanks and Idris Elba.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Banderas was supposed to attend the Starlite Gala in Marbella, a star-studded charity event he helped organize, but backed out at the last minute.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the majority of the funds from the gala were directed to the fight against the novel virus.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Star lite Foundation says the gala adhered to strict safety measures, a video released by the organization shows the presenter and several guests not wearing masks at the venue.<\/p>\n<p>Prominent figures including Spanish celebrities, journalists and even the country\u2019s tourism minister, Mar\u00eda Reyes Maroto, attended the gala.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMusic is the medicine of the soul and this gala shows that COVID won\u2019t make us be quiet\u2026 music, culture and tourism have been some of the most affected sectors&#8230; this gala shows our support,\u201d Reyes Maroto said in a speech.<\/p>\n<p>Mass gatherings and social interaction have been key drivers of new infections in Spain during the virus\u2019s strong resurgence this summer.<\/p>\n<p>During the week leading up to Friday, more than 20,000 people tested positive for the infectious disease in the European country, according to the last available data from its Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OVIEDO, Spain Spanish actor Antonio Banderas announced on Monday that he has tested positive for COVID-19. The announcement came on the day of his 60th birthday, which he said will be spent in quarantine. The Academy Award-winning actor said he feels \u201crelatively good, just a little more tired than usual.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ll take advantage of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16143,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16141\/revisions\/16143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}