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Madonna accepts an award in new York in 2019.
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Madonna recovering after the pop icon spent several days in intensive care
The pop star’s upcoming tour has been postposed after she was hospitalised with a ‘serious bacterial infection’.
MADONNA IS RECOVERING after falling ill with a “serious bacterial infection” that landed her in an intensive care unit for several days, her manager Guy Oseary said in a statement last night.
“Her health is improving, however she is still under medical care,” he said. “A full recovery is expected.”
Oseary said the 64-year-old pop icon’s Celebrations tour, due to start 15 July in Vancouver, Canada, was postponed until further notice.
The New York Post’s Page Six website said the pop star was taken to a hospital in the city after becoming unwell.
Her global, nearly sold-out tour was billed as paying homage to Madonna’s more than four-decade long career, and according to her website boasted 84 concert dates.
Stops in the United States were to include Detroit, Chicago, Miami and New York, the city where her storied rise to superstardom began.
She was then slated to continue in Europe, with dates in over a dozen cities including London, Barcelona and Paris but none in Ireland.
The Grammy-winning megastar behind classics including “Like a Virgin” has asserted incalculable influence over her stellar career as one of music’s top stars.
In his statement on social media, her manager vowed to provide more information when available, including a new start date for the tour and for rescheduled shows.
In 2020 Madonna underwent hip replacement surgery following an injury sustained on her “Madame X” tour.
