Yves Calvi was unable to present his morning show on RTL this Monday. – Jacques BENAROCH / SIPA
As revealed The Parisian this Monday, many radio morning shows were disrupted on Monday. For good reason, several participants in the show We are live celebrating the 100 years of radio on Saturday evening on France 2, had to be placed in isolation after the detection of a case of Covid-19. As the daily reported, “one of the guests on this show tested positive less than two days after recording, forcing many participants”, who had posed for a group photo without masks, “to respect a period isolation ”.
If the identity of the person was not known at first, Jean-Jacques Bourdin revealed this Monday at the end of his interview with Gérald Darmanin that his colleague from RTL Yves Calvi – present during the recording of the France 2 program and absent from the air this morning – had tested “positive for Covid”. The RMC journalist clarified that he was not himself a contact case being “doubly vaccinated”.
The facilitator has no symptoms
Asked by AFP, a spokesperson for RTL said that Yves Calvi, who does not present any symptoms, would be replaced by Jérôme Florin for a week. The radio confirmed to 20 minutes that the 61-year-old host “was doing fine so far”
For his part, Laurent Ruquier, the host d’on is live, who has already had Covid-19 and is doubly vaccinated, will continue to present Big heads. His colleague Pascal Praud (Listeners have the floor) will also present his program from RTL’s premises, but as a precaution, he will be alone in a studio and all his interlocutors will intervene remotely.
For the past year, the Covid-19 has forced many radio and television presenters to move away from the air after having tested positive, figured among contact cases or even simply out of caution (as was the case). case for the former presenter of the 13 hours of TF1 Jean-Pierre Pernaut).
But this is the first time that we have witnessed such cascading consequences since the first confinement, which then forced the radios to upset their grids and, for some, to make journalists and animators work remotely.