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Channel 10 are today learning lessons after exposing a number of ‘essential workers’ to COVID-19 while filming a full scale tv show in a city that is being plagued by COVID-19, in the middle of a COVID-19-related stage 4 lockdown.
Melbourne’s Docklands studios is now undergoing a deep clean and all productions have been halted including Millionaire’s Hot Seat and a range of other ‘essential programs’.
This means Channel 10 has joined the rest of the city in no longer pretending that COVID-19 is an illness that only affects security guards and aged care residents.
Chief health officer Brett Sutton said a number of staff had tested positive but insisted it did not necessarily mean there had been a breach of any guidelines.
Production of the Channel 10 reality show, The Masked Singer, was shut down after several crew members tested positive for COVID-19. The entire production team, including host Osher Gunsberg and celebrity judges Jackie O, Dannii Minogue and Dave Hughes, are in self-isolation.
While major construction developments, elective surgery and basically any form of education still remains in a lockdown purgatory – today’s news now means that the entertainment industry has also been compromised.
Victorians are learning that full blown TV sets, with lots of people running around and talking to each other, can be rather risky in the peak of a pandemic.
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