Rihanna Helps Her Father Survive Coronavirus
Testing positive for the coronavirus can be a death sentence for some, but celebrities and their families have a higher chance of getting out of it alive thanks to the resources at their disposal. Rihanna is one such case, having been able to send a ventilator to her dad who tested positive for the disease.
Page Six reports that the singer and makeup mogul sent “more than enough” money and a ventilator to her father Ronald Fenty’s home in Barbados after he tested positive for COVID-19. Fenty has now recovered from the illness and says Rihanna has “done so much” for him.
Fenty says he exhibited a lot of the symptoms other coronavirus patients have shown, most notably the high fever. During the two weeks he battled with COVID-19, Fenty was kept at the Paragon Isolation Center.
The Sun reports that while Rihanna and her father have a good relationship now, that wasn’t always the case. Because of his problems with addiction, Fenty did not have a good relationship with Rihanna when she was younger. The two did not even speak to each other at one point after Fenty’s drunkenness caused him to be sent home from his daughter’s tour. In 2013, Rihanna paid $58,000 to send her father to rehab,
Rihanna, of course, has not just been helping her father. Her Clara Lionel Foundation, together with Jay-Z’s Shawn Carter Foundation, donated $1 million each to support COVID-19 response efforts.
Her efforts join those made by other celebrities to help out those affected by the coronavirus. Andrea Bocelli’s “Music for Hope” performance, for instance, benefitted his Andrea Bocelli Fund. Money raised would be used to purchase personal protective equipment for health workers.
Meanwhile, Elton John’s “Living Room Concert for America” raised millions for the benefit of the First Responders’ Children’s Foundation and Feeding America, which help out COVID-19 first responders.
Angelina Jolie, in her own private capacity, donated $1 million to the nonprofit organization No Kid Hungry, which helps out children that will go hungry because of the school closures brought about by the coronavirus pandemic.
There are now 1,914,916 confirmed cases of COVID-19 around the world, according to the Apr. 15 situation report released by the World Health Organization. Of those confirmed cases, 70,082 are new cases. Deaths caused by COVID-19 now total to 123,010 people. New deaths make up 5,989 of that total.
The Apr. 15 update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention puts the number of confirmed coronavirus cases at 605,390 people. Fatalities in the United States is now at 24,582 people.