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Idris Elba Has Recovered From COVID-19, And Here's How He's Ready To Fight Back · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood. Idris Elba and his wife's Sabrina, have
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  Speaker 1: thankfully fully recovered from COVID nineteen. He tells the Hollywood
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  Speaker 1: Reporter that the entire experience was just unsettling and threw
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  Speaker 1: his life into upheaval. It also left him gravely concerned
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  Speaker 1: for less fortunate populations, particularly in rural Africa. So the
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  Speaker 1: couple have become u N Goodwill Ambassadors to launch a
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  Speaker 1: fund to aid rule farmers and food workers. Eadra says,
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  Speaker 1: if you can imagine being in a slum where there
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  Speaker 1: is one room and six of you in it, social
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  Speaker 1: distancing is almost laughable. What we are really worried about
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  Speaker 1: at the moment and why we are launching this fund,
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  Speaker 1: is that those people are being forgotten. Both of the
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  Speaker 1: Alba's have roots in Africa. Eaters parents are from Sierra
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  Speaker 1: Leone and Ghana, while his wife's family is from Somalia,
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  Speaker 1: So it's a deeply personal endeavor for both that's direct
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  Speaker 1: from Hollywood.