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Tom Hanks and wife Rita donating blood to help develop coronavirus 'Hank-ccine'

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Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson are donating their blood to medical research in a bid to help develop a coronavirus vaccine. The couple were one of the first high-profile individuals to contract Covid-19, and tested positive to the bug while in Queensland, Australia, where the actor was shooting the Baz Luhrmann's upcoming Elvis Presley biopic.

Speaking on NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! over the weekend, the Forest Gump actor playfully quipped he'd like to label the medicine the "Hank-ccine".

After falling ill, they quarantined in an Australian hospital and received round-the-clock care from medics, who they thanked profusely on social media.

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