File photo: Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson during 26th Screen Actors Guild Awards at California, US, January 19, 2020 ReutersThe pair now remain under quarantine in the houseOscar-winning actor Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, have left a hospital in Australia’s Queensland state five days after testing positive for the coronavirus, People magazine reported on Monday. Both Hanks and Wilson are 63 years old. Hanks had traveled to the Gold Coast, on Australia’s east coast south of Brisbane, to begin filming a movie about Elvis Presley. He is set to play Presley’s manager, Colonel Tom Parker, in the Warner Bros production. Hanks and Wilson were the first major American celebrities known to have contracted the coronavirus, which causes a disease, Covid-19, that has killed more than 70 people and infected more than 3,800 in the United States.

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 17, 2020 06:00 UTC