Tom Hanks and Wife Rita Wilson Diagnosed with Coronavirus

Tom Hanks just announced on Instagram that he and his wife Rita Wilson have tested positive with Covid-19. The pair are currently in Australia and felt like they had come down with colds, they decided they needed to be tested and found out they did in fact have Covid-19.

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

A post shared by Tom Hanks (@tomhanks) on Mar 11, 2020 at 6:08pm PDT

This adds even more of a sense of reality to people who have been watching the stock market drop over the past few days. This evening President Trump addressed the nation from the Oval Office and announced a travel ban on passengers from Europe starting on Friday. The travel ban excludes the UK and is for thirty days.