Tom Hanks infected with coronavirus

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 set to film 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.

Hanks is the first major Hollywood star to publicly state that he has the virus that is sweeping around the world.

The pair will now be isolated and monitored, wrote Hanks.

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