Tom Hanks announces positive test for coronavirus
Thursday March 12 2020
Hollywood megastar Tom Hanks and his wife have tested positive for the new coronavirus. PHOTO | AFP
Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson have both tested positive for coronavirus, the US actor said Wednesday.
Hanks, 63, said he and Wilson came down with a fever while in Australia, where he is reportedly filming a new movie about the life of Elvis Presley.
"To play things right, as is needed in the world right now, we were tested for the coronavirus, and were found to be positive," he wrote in a statement posted to Instagram.
The pair will now be isolated and monitored, wrote Hanks.
"We'll keep the world posted and updated," he added, along with a photo of a surgical glove placed inside a biohazard trash bag.
Hanks is the first major Hollywood star to publicly state that he has the virus that is sweeping around the world.
According to a Deadline Hollywood report, the Elvis film directed by Baz Luhrmann features Hanks as the legendary singer's long-time manager Colonel Tom Parker.