You've got mail: Tom Hanks writes to bullied boy called 'Corona'

Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson contracted COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, in March and spent two weeks recovering in a Queensland hospital. [AFP]

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.