Hollywood megastar and coronavirus survivor Tom Hanks has written a comforting letter to a bullied Australian boy called Corona and gifted him a cherished typewriter bearing the same name.
Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson contracted COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, in March and spent two weeks recovering in a Queensland hospital, before returning home to the United States.
Eight-year-old Corona De Vries sent a letter to Hanks asking after his health, local media reported. "I heard on the news you and your wife had caught the coronavirus," the boy wrote. "Are you ok?" "I love my name but at school people call me the coronavirus," De Vries said, 7 News reported. "I get very sad and angry when people call me this." Hanks reportedly