Harvey Weinstein tests positive for coronavirus

It’s no secret that convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein has faced a bunch of health-related problems following the court’s decision to lock him away in February, but now he’s adding another item to the list: Covid-19. Law officials have confirmed that the 68-year-old has indeed tested positive for coronavirus just days after he was transferred to the Wende Correctional Facility just east of Buffalo from New York City’s Rikers Island.Deadline and Page Six are both confirming the news with official sources, although Weinstein’s people are surprisingly mum at the moment. “Our team that has HIPAA consent has not heard anything like that yet. I can’t tell you what I don’t know,” Juda Engelmayer, Weinstein’s rep, said in a statement.[video_embed id='1920646']RELATED: Our hosts react to Harvey Weinstein’s sentence[/video_embed]Now Weinstein is supposedly being held in isolation. Meanwhile the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision isn’t confirming or denying the news because of privacy issues, although it told Page Six that two inmates at Wende have coronavirus (the facility can house up to 961 inmates). According to the publication that brings the total number of jailhouse Covid-19 infections in New York City up to 38. Meanwhile Deadline reports that the 43,000 or so prisoners in the state are all considered to be at high risk of contracting the virus, and more than 40 inmates at Rikers alone have reportedly tested positive in the past week.After Weinstein’s February 24 conviction on two of the five charges against him he was rushed to the hospital for chest pains, where he wound up having heart surgery. Ahead of his sentencing hearing on March 11, Weinstein’s reps tried to make the case that he would die in prison if he were given more than five years. Then, after he was sentenced to 23 years on March 11, he was taken back to the hospital for more chest pains.There he supposedly developed a cough while being treated for high blood pressure, but was also kept in quarantine for a few days after he reportedly tested negative for Covid-19. That leaves sources to believe he contracted the virus at Rikers before he was transferred to Wende.Since the Weinstein's conviction, many celebrities have been speaking out about how it is a win for the Time’s Up and #MeToo movements, but also how the disgraced exec’s reign of terror still leaves a mark. Rose McGowen recently revealed that she’s scared he might try and hurt her, while Jennifer Aniston learned through unsealed court documents that he may have wanted her killed at one point in her career. Then there are the celebs who are still coming out of the woodworks, like Kate Beckinsale, who recently revealed her own Weinstein horror story.If the positive Covid-19 test is true, Weinstein isn’t the only notable person that has contracted the virus since it became a global pandemic. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, Idris Elba and his wife, Bachelor star Colton Underwood, Entourage star Debi Mazar, Bon Jovi keyboardist David Bryan, opera singer Placido Domingo, Lost star Daniel Dae Kim, Real Housewives honcho Andy Cohen, Game of Thrones stars Kristofer Hivju and Indira Varma, Bond girl Olga Kurylenko, NBA players Kevin Durant and Marcus Smart, and personalities like Prince Albert II and Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau have all tested positive for the virus over the past week or so.[video_embed id='1924154']BEFORE YOU GO: COVID-19 threat results in massive crowd outside Brooklyn Costco[/video_embed]