Taylor Swift has donated $50,000 (£36,400) to a Memphis woman who lost her husband to Covid-19. The singer and her mother, Andrea, jointly donated the total goal amount of a GoFundMe appeal for Vickie Quarles, a mother of five daughters whose husband, Theodis Ray Quarles, died of coronavirus a week before Christmas.
This is not the first time Swift has given financial help to people affected by the pandemic. Last December, she gave $13,000 (£10,000) to two mothers from her hometown of Nashville who were struggling to pay rent and bills.
She had been moved to make the donation after reading their story in The Washington Post. Procession for police officer killed in Boulder supermarket shootingEU sanctions 11 Myanmar military leaders over.