Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson test positive for coronavirus
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 12-03-2020
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The Warner Bros statement did not mention Hanks. The actor is staying on the Gold Coast, in eastern Australia, which has one of the country's main Hollywood studios and where filming was to take place. "The Elvis biopic filming has been closed down. I understand it will be 14 days quarantine and testing ... our heart goes out to Tom and his wife," Tom Tate, mayor of the Gold Coast, said in a press conference.
The couple's son Chet took to Instagram to say he had spoken with his parents on the phone and that both were fine and there was no cause for major concern. "Yeah, it's true, my parents got coronavirus. Crazy," he said in a video message. "They're not even that sick. They're not worried about it, they're not trippin', but they're going through the necessary health precautions obviously."
Wilson appeared on Monday on a chat show on free-to-air broadcaster Nine Entertainment Co Holdings Ltd. The network said employees who had been in contact with her would be tested for the coronavirus and quarantined for 14 days.
Hanks won the Academy Award for best actor for his role in 1994's Philadelphia, in which he plays a man stricken with AIDS, and Forrest Gump the following year. Wilson has appeared in such films as Sleepless in Seattle and Runaway Bride. The coronavirus has infected more than 121,000 people in 118 countries while over 4,300 people have died due to the virus, a Reuters tally shows. In the US, at least 37 people have died from the respiratory illness.