Richard Wilkins tests positive for COVID-19 after meeting Tom Hanks' wife Rita Wilson

Entertainment reporter Richard Wilkins has tested positive to the coronavirus after meeting with Hollywood star Rita Wilson.

TV presenter Richard Wilkins is seen during the Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw movie premiere at Hoyts Entertainment Quarter in Sydney, Wednesday, July 31, 2019. (AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi) NO ARCHIVING

Television presenter Richard Wilkins has tested positive to COVID-19. Source: AAP

Veteran entertainment reporter Richard Wilkins has tested positive to COVID-19 after meeting with Hollywood star Rita Wilson.
Wilkins met Wilson after her intimate performance at the Sydney Opera House's Utzon Room last week and has since returned a positive result for coronavirus, Nine newspapers reported on Sunday night.

Wilson and her husband, actor Tom Hanks, are quarantined in a Gold Coast hospital after testing positive to COVID-19 on Thursday.
"Richard Wilkins has tested positive to COVID-19. Richard is not showing any symptoms of the virus and has been self-isolating, on his own at home, since Thursday last week," a spokeswoman said.
Richard Wilkins and his partner Virginia Burmeister arrive at the 2018 Logie Awards at The Star Casino on the Gold Coast, Sunday, July 1, 2018. (AAP Image/Dan Peled) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY
Richard Wilkins and his partner Virginia Burmeister in 2018. The entertainment veteran has tested positive to the novel coronavirus. Source: AAP
Anyone Wilkins has been in contact with has been notified and will be tested if they show any symptoms of the virus, she added.


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Published 16 March 2020 5:42am
Updated 16 March 2020 8:07am



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