Mel Gibson spent a week in the hospital after testing positive for the new coronavirus (COVID-19).
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Gibson, 64, fell ill with the life-threatening virus in April and has since made a full recovery, PEOPLE has confirmed.
“He tested positive in April and spent a week in the hospital,” the star’s representative told PEOPLE. “He was treated with the drug Remdesivir while in the hospital, and has been negative on numerous occasions since then, as well as positive for the antibodies.”
The actor was treated at a Los Angeles, California hospital.
Australian news channel the Daily telegraph He was the first to report news of the star’s health scare.
Gibson was seen at a California grocery store with girlfriend Rosalind Ross just in March, shortly before his hospitalization. Gibson and Ross, who started dating in 2014, welcomed their first child together in 2017. The boy, Lars Gerard, is Gibson’s ninth child and Ross’s first.
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While keeping his health battle private, Gibson tested positive just a few weeks after fellow actor Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson also contracted the virus.
The couple discussed receiving COVID-19 on March 11.
“Hello folks. Rita and I are here in Australia. We feel a little tired, like we have colds and some body aches. Rita had a few chills that came and went. Mild fevers too. needs in the world right now, we were tested for the coronavirus and found to be positive, ”Hanks wrote.
“Right now. What to do next? Medical officials have protocols to follow. We Hanks’ will be tested, observed, and isolated for as long as public health and safety require. It’s not much more than a one-time approach. day at a time, right?
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Since then, the couple made a full recovery and flew to the United States in late March. Since then, the United States has seen a catastrophic increase in cases of the deadly virus.
As of Thursday, across the country, more than 4,040,200 people in the United States have been infected with the coronavirus and at least 144,000 have died, according to The New York Times.
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