Tom Hanks, wife Rita Wilson test positive for coronavirus in Australia

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Oscar-profitable actor Tom Hanks and his spouse, actress Rita Wilson, have each examined constructive for coronavirus in Australia, the actor explained on Twitter.

Hanks explained that he and Wilson, who are each 63, had been examined in Australia, the place he is performing on a film, right after they felt tired and achy with slight fevers.

“To participate in factors suitable, as is required in the planet suitable now, we had been examined for the coronavirus and had been identified to be constructive,” Hanks explained in the tweet.

The film star explained that he and Wilson would be “tested, observed and isolated” for as lengthy as essential.

The few are the initially important U.S. celebs acknowledged to have contracted COVID-19. The coronavirus has infected extra than 1,000 persons in the United States.

“Not substantially extra to it than a one particular-working day-at-a-time solution, no? We’ll preserve the planet posted and updated,” Hanks tweeted.

Hanks had traveled to Australia to get started filming an forthcoming movie about Elvis Presley. He is established to participate in Presley’s supervisor, Colonel Tom Parker, in the Warner Bros. production.

“We have been built mindful that a company member from our Elvis function film, which is at this time in pre-production in The Gold Coast, Australia, has examined constructive for COVID-19,” Warner Bros explained in a assertion, without naming the human being.

“We are performing carefully with the appropriate Australian wellness agencies to identify and get in touch with any one who might have come in immediate get in touch with with the unique.

“The wellness and protection of our company users is often our best precedence, and we are having safety measures to safeguard anyone who operates on our productions all over the planet,” the studio explained.

The Warner Bros assertion did not point out Hanks.

It was not right away obvious if filming on the project would be postponed thanks to the actor’s sickness.

Hanks received greatest actor Academy Awards for his function in 1994’s “Philadelphia”, in which he performs a gentleman stricken with AIDS, and “Forrest Gump” the following year. Wilson has appeared in this kind of films as “Sleepless in Seattle” and “Runaway Bride”.

The coronavirus has infected extra than 121,000 persons in 118 countries although about 4,three hundred persons have died thanks to the virus, according to a Reuters tally. In the United States at least 37 persons have died from the respiratory sickness.