American philanthropist and fashion designer Tina Knowles has partnered with her daughter Beyoncé's BeyGOOD charity, launching a new #IDidMyPart initiative, encouraging residents in her home city of Houston, Texas, to get tested for Covid-19, following reports that African American communities have an escalated rate of infections and fatalities.

In an urgent appeal to combat the virus, two mobile testing sites will be set up in Houston over US Mother's Day weekend, May 9-10, and Knowles commented 'It is critical that we stay vigilant with social distancing, wearing a mask, and most of all getting tested. If you don't get tested then you don't know if you are a carrier of the virus.... We have got to go to these free testing facilities and find out our status'. Actor Tyler Perry has accepted Knowles' challenge to do the same, and will set up his own #IDidMyPart campaign in Atlanta, Georgia.