Actor Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, announced today that they have been diagnosed with coronavirus. The couple was in Australia for a movie shooting, announced the news via Tom's social media pages. Now, according to a report in The Hollywood Reporter, officials from the Australian government's Queensland Health Department said that Tom and Rita contracted the coronavirus in the United States. 

As per the website, Queensland Health official said on Thursday that all patients that have been tested positive for coronavirus recently have "contracted the illness outside Australia and travelled to Queensland with the virus." However, the health official did not specifically name the couple but spoke about all the new cases.

For the uninformed, Australia has reported a total of over 130 cases of coronavirus across the country. The confirmed cases in the continent of coronavirus rose to 122 on Wednesday, with 10 new cases reported by the state health officials across the country.

On the work front, Tom was shooting for the role of Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley’s manager, who groomed the famous singer to stardom in the 1950s.

"Hello, folks. Rita and I are down here in Australia," Hanks said in a statement. "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," he added.

He added that he and Wilson "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 will keep the world posted and updated," his statement read.