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01.09.2020 - 13:57

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Toots Hibbert has been put into intensive care with suspected coronavirus, his family has shared. The 77-year-old, who is the frontman for Toots and the Maytals, is receiving treatment at a hospital in Kingston, Jamaica.

His family said he has had a coronavirus test but is "showing signs of improvement". In a statement his family said: "While reports of Mr Hibbert being in an intensive care unit at a private facility in the Corporate Area are true, the family would like to assure those concerned that he is making positive progress and is receiving the best possible treatment, while he awaits the results on his Covid-19 test. "He is resting and in good spirits, and is showing signs of improvement by the hour." The singer is suffering from

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