Idris ElbaBritish actor Idris Elba says he has tested positive for the coronavirus, joining Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson among the first major celebrities to contract the respiratory disease. Hanks and Wilson have been released from the Australian hospital where they were in isolation since last week, their son Chet said yesterday. Elba, who starred in TV police drama Luther and played the Norse god Heimdall in Avengers: Infinity War, tweeted that he had no symptoms but was isolating himself from others. "This morning I tested positive for Covid-19. Elba said he had taken the test because he found out he had been exposed to someone who had contracted the disease.

Source: The Standard March 17, 2020 19:07 UTC