Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson have coronavirus: Sixty-three-year-old actor announces they have caught the virus while filming in Australia and describes how it gave them ‘chills and body aches’

Actor Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, they revealed last night.

The Forrest Gump actor and his wife, both 63, announced the positive test results on Instagram urging the public to ‘take care’.

The couple are currently in Gold Coast, Australia where the Oscar-winner is filming for an untitled Baz Luhrmann-directed Elvis Presley film produced by Warner Bros.

Hanks revealed he and his wife experienced symptoms including the common cold, body aches and chills before they decided to get tested.

Before their diagnosis, the couple had visited crowded Australian hotspots including Bondi Beach and the Sydney Opera House – raising fears that others were infected.

‘People who have come in close contact with Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson will now need to self isolate and quarantine,’ the premier of Queensland said.

The A-list couple are now in isolation at Gold Coast University Hospital where health officials say they are in a ‘stable condition’.

‘Hello, folks. Rita and I are down here in Australia. We felt a bit tired, like we had colds, and some body aches. Rita had some chills that came and went. Slight fevers too. To play things right, as is needed in the world right now, we were tested for the Coronavirus, and were found to be positive,’ Hanks said.

‘Well, now. What to do next? The Medical Officials have protocols that must be followed. We Hanks’ will be tested, observed, and isolated for as long as public health and safety requires. Not much more to it than a one-day-at-a-time approach, no?’ Hanks wrote.

‘We’ll keep the world posted and updated. Take care of yourselves! Hanx!’

He shared a picture of what appears to be a medical waste basket and a latex glove in a hospital.

Hanks and Wilson married in 1988. In 2013, Hanks disclosed he has Type 2 diabetes.

Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate said Hanks was ‘tested early this morning, very early, and once everyone was in the news was delivered by Baz and then everyone went home.’

Hanks is the first major Hollywood star to publicly state that he has the virus that has sickened more than 125,000 people worldwide and killed more than 4,600.
He touched down in Gold Coast on January 26 for the film, which is still in pre-production meaning cameras have not started rolling yet.

Production on the Elvis film – in which Hanks was set to play the legendary singer’s longtime manager, Colonel Tom Parker – has been suspended and actors and crew are also being tested.

Hanks was rumored to be staying at Peppers Broadbeach, the very same hotel building where a 44-year-old Chinese national, who later became one of Australia’s first cases of coronavirus, was staying, according to The Advertiser.

That man was rushed to the hospital on January 28 and was confirmed to have the virus on January 29. He had recently returned from Wuhan and was traveling with his wife and child and was staying at the Oracle building, but was not a guest at Peppers Broadbeach, which is located in the same building.

Hanks and Wilson, who is an American singer and actor, had been travelling to different locations in Australia and had posted photos from Sydney and Brisbane on Instagram.

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