Priyanka Chopra Creates Fundraiser To Help India Amid COVID-19; 'We All Need To Help!'

Actress Priyanka Chopra is taking on social media to announce a new fundraiser she initiated for India amid the COVID-19 crisis and urge her followers to help her home country.

Chopra, 38, took to Instagram Tuesday to share an emotional video explaining the ongoing COVID-19 situation in India with a lengthy caption, "India, my home, is suffering the world’s worst Covid crisis, and we all need to help! People are dying in record numbers."

"There is illness everywhere, and it’s only continuing to spread and kill at great speed and scale," she added. "I have set up a fundraiser with GiveIndia, the largest organization on the ground in India providing Covid relief."

The actress further encouraged netizens to donate even a small amount as she believes it will eventually get bigger as more people contribute to the fundraiser.

"Whatever you can spare, truly makes a difference. Nearly 63 million people follow me on here, if even 100,000 of you donate $10, that’s $1 Million, and that’s huge," Chopra noted.

"Your donation will go directly to healthcare physical infrastructure (including Covid care centres, Isolation centers, and oxygen generation plants), medical equipment, and vaccine support and mobilization," the actress further explained.

The actress revealed that she and her husband Nick Jonas already contributed and will continue to do the same.

"Please please donate. Nick and I already have and will continue to contribute," she added. "We have all seen how far and wide this virus can spread, an ocean between us makes no difference."

"No one is safe unless everyone is safe. It’s so heartening to see so many people stepping up to help in so many ways," she concluded. "We need to beat this virus, and to do that requires ALL of us. From the bottom of my heart THANK YOU!"

The fundraiser has received over $379, 836 as of this writing.

After another world record number of daily infections, India's total COVID-19 cases surpassed 18 million Thursday, Reuters reported. Citing health ministry statistics, the outlet said India recorded 379,257 new infections and 3,645 new deaths, the highest number of fatalities in a single day since the pandemic began.

In the video, the actress explained why everyone needs to care about India.

"Why do we need to care? Why is it so urgent right now? I'm sitting in London and I'm hearing from my friends and family in India about how hospitals are at capacity, there are no rooms in ICUs, ambulances are too busy, oxygen supply is less, crematoriums having mass cremations because the volume of deaths is so much," she explained.

"India is my home and India is bleeding. And we, as a global community, need to care. And I'll tell you why we need to care: Because unless everyone is safe, no one is safe," she added.

Chopra will be next seen in "The Matrix 4," slated to release on Dec. 16, 2021.