Tom Hanks shared another update with us amid his coronavirus recovery

In a true happy ending, Tom Hanks has given us a glimpse of the beloved typewriter that he’d been travelling with, after leaving hospital following his coronavirus diagnosis.

However, in a rather eerie turn of events, the typewriter was a Corona.

Who would have thunk it!

Last week the actor and his wife Rita Wilson, both 63, tested positive for Covid-19 while in Australia and remained in hospital until yesterday.


Now they’re in quarantine as they continue their recovery, Tom has shared another update to keep us going.

Forrest Gump star Tom wrote on Instagram on Tuesday night: ‘Good news. One week after testing positive, in self-isolation, the symptoms are much the same.



‘No fever but the blahs.

‘Folding the laundry and doing the dishes leads to a nap on the couch.’

However, there was ‘bad news’ as the star added that his wife had won six hands in a row in the card game gin rummy.

And, in a spot of the eerie coincidence, Tom added the message alongside a typewriter he said he had been travelling with which had the word ‘corona’ printed on it.

Tom and Rita both tested positive (Picture: Instagram)

‘I travelled here with a typewriter, one I used to love,’ he said, sharing the image of the machine sitting in what appeared to be a hospital room.

Oh, he also wrote in the message, after being roasted over his use of Aussie staple Vegemite: ‘But I have learned not to spread my Vegemite so thick.’

Look, you do you, Hanx.

He added: ‘We are all in this together. Flatten the curve. Hanx.’

Tom and Rita’s son Chet had earlier shared an update on his parents, insisting they were doing well.

‘A quick update on my folks: They’re out of the hospital,’ Chet said in an Instagram video on Monday. ‘They’re still self-quarantined obviously, but they’re feeling a lot better, so that’s a relief.’

In his video, Chet continued: ‘I just wanna say anyone else who has loved one or if you yourself is afflicted with the virus themselves, my thoughts go out to you because my parents are not the only ones suffering other than my parents right now.’

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