--- title: Tom Hanks Shares Coronavirus Update From Isolation description: Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson are in isolation in Australia after testing positive for coronavirus. He said people need to take "care of ourselves and each other." canonical: https://time.com/5802265/tom-hanks-rita-wilson-coronavirus-update/ author: Amy Gunia article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2020-03-13T04:06:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:01:22.387Z og:title: Tom Hanks Offers Advice as He and Rita Wilson Fight Coronavirus: Take 'Care of Ourselves and Each Other' og:description: The actor and his wife, Rita Wilson, tested positive for COVID-19 while in Australia og:url: https://time.com/5802265/tom-hanks-rita-wilson-coronavirus-update/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b10737517d5547b/698a0b7a096a944cac6a7dd8/tom-hanks-coronavirus-1.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: tom-hanks-coronavirus og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Tom Hanks Offers Advice as He and Rita Wilson Fight Coronavirus: Take 'Care of Ourselves and Each Other' twitter:description: The actor and his wife, Rita Wilson, tested positive for COVID-19 while in Australia twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b10737517d5547b/698a0b7a096a944cac6a7dd8/tom-hanks-coronavirus-1.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Tom Hanks Offers Advice as He and Rita Wilson Fight Coronavirus: Take 'Care of Ourselves and Each Other' by [Amy Gunia](https://time.com/author/amy-gunia/) ## Amy Gunia Gunia was a reporter for TIME based in Hong Kong. Mar 13, 2020 4:06 AM UTC  Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson pose as Rita is honored with a Star On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame in Hollywood, California on March 29, 2019. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson pose as Rita is honored with a Star On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame in Hollywood, California on March 29, 2019.Gregg DeGuire— FilmMagic by [Amy Gunia](https://time.com/author/amy-gunia/) ## Amy Gunia Gunia was a reporter for TIME based in Hong Kong. Mar 13, 2020 4:06 AM UTC [Tom Hanks](https://time.com/5801852/tom-hanks-coronavirus/) says he and wife Rita Wilson are in isolation and are being well cared for after being [diagnosed with coronavirus](https://time.com/5800901/coronavirus-map/) in Australia. In an updated posted on Twitter Friday morning, Hanks also offered the world advice on how to deal with the outbreak—which has so far infected more than 125,000 people and killed nearly 5,000 worldwide. “We are taking it one day at a time. There are things we can all do to get through this by following the advice of experts and taking care of ourselves and each other, no?” he said. > [](https://twitter.com/tomhanks/status/1238286871597166592) The 63-year-old actor [announced in a statement](https://time.com/5801852/tom-hanks-coronavirus/) on Wednesday that both he and Wilson had [tested positive for the virus](https://time.com/5801534/tom-hanks-rita-wilson-coronavirus/) in Australia. He said that he and his wife, who is also 63, had experienced tiredness and body aches, so they decided to get tested. In his update Friday, he said: “Rita Wilson and I want to thank everyone here Down Under who are taking such good care of us.” The couple is in isolation at a hospital in the state of Queensland in Australia, where Hanks was working on an untitled film about Elvis Presley directed by Baz Luhrmann for Warner Bros. The actor ended with a note of encouragement for his followers. “Remember, despite all the current events, there is no crying in baseball.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5802265/tom-hanks-rita-wilson-coronavirus-update/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5802265/tom-hanks-rita-wilson-coronavirus-update/"},"headline":"Tom Hanks Offers Advice as He and Rita Wilson Fight Coronavirus: Take 'Care of Ourselves and Each Other'","datePublished":"2020-03-13T04:06:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:01:22.387Z","description":"The actor and his wife, Rita Wilson, tested positive for COVID-19 while in Australia","url":"https://time.com/5802265/tom-hanks-rita-wilson-coronavirus-update/","keywords":["Newsfeed","overnight","COVID-19"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b10737517d5547b/698a0b7a096a944cac6a7dd8/tom-hanks-coronavirus-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Amy Gunia","jobTitle":"Gunia was a reporter for TIME based in Hong Kong.","url":"https://time.com/author/amy-gunia/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b10737517d5547b/698a0b7a096a944cac6a7dd8/tom-hanks-coronavirus-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"tom-hanks-coronavirus","caption":"Tom Hanks Coronavirus","creditText":"Gregg DeGuire— FilmMagic","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5802265/tom-hanks-rita-wilson-coronavirus-update/","name":"Tom Hanks Offers Advice as He and Rita Wilson Fight Coronavirus: Take 'Care of Ourselves and Each Other'"}}]}] ```