Covid contagion prevention measures vary by workplace, although the recommendations of distance, ventilation and mask. However, in some areas such as television you can see presenters and talk shows animatedly without masks. The positive in coronavirus of Pablo Motos, in front of the Antena 3 program ‘El hormiguero 3.0’, has made some viewers wonder: why don’t these professionals wear a mask?
All the channels have informative programs, interviews and contests in which the mask disappears when the broadcast begins, but the rest of the technical team behind the cameras wears it all the time, they explain from the audiovisual sector. In the case of the public, it has directly disappeared, the number of attendees has been reduced or it has been replaced by photographs. The safety standards set by each autonomous community are followed.
Private spaces
Television studios are considered private spaces, so that current health regulations allow you to work on them without a mask, detail from the Aragonese Radio and Television Corporation (CARTV). “It is not mandatory because in the decrees that have been issued it has not been said that in these private facilities it is”, they add.
“Dishes they have ventilation. The newsletter and the virtual one from which the weather information is made also have a purifier with HEPA filters for aerosols, “they add from Aragonese television. Along with this, they affirm that” distances are guaranteed to be maintained, so less, 1.5 meters separation between presenters or guests, and the rest of the time everyone is wearing masks. “
“There have been cases of people in the health field who have preferred to keep the mask and we respect their decision”
Sometimes a guest doesn’t want to take it off during the broadcast. “There have been cases of people in the health field who have preferred to keep the mask and we respect their decision”, they count from the Aragonese autonomic television. Among the experts who have come several times in the last month to a set of the chain and have not removed their FFP2 is Carlos López Serrano, member of the Health and Safety Commission of the College of Industrial Engineers of Aragon and La Rioja. And he did it in addition with his CO2 meter under his arm.
The results showed very low CO2 values. “They have a lot of ventilation, distances and the set is large, which helps”, acknowledges the engineer from Zaragoza. But he prefers to be cautious. “Although the risk is low, if you are more protected, the better, because when you speak you emit more aerosols “, he explains, about the invisible particles that come out of the mouth when they expire. Remember that” indoors the risk of contagion is greater than outdoors “.
López Serrano defends the studies that prove that the virus is transmitted between 80% and 90% of cases through the air, although they have not yet been accepted by the World Health Organization (WHO). And most of those who infect are asymptomatic. Therefore, he believes that the contagion “is quite invisible” inside or outside of work. The presenter of Antena 3, Pablo Motos, would have confessed that he did not explain how he had been infected because he affirmed that he had been careful. “It may have to do with the set, with getting into the elevator with someone else without wearing a very tight mask, with having shared a car and not having opened the windows or by contact, “he puts as examples.
“Going to a supermarket for an hour is more risky than being on a set, but at that time you can also get infected “, adds López Serrano. For this reason, he advocates trying to reduce the risk as much as possible.
Rapid tests and PCR
The current ‘anti covid’ protocol of the Aragonese television corporation includes that make-up rooms are attended in ‘bubble’ groups, one for informative and another for programs, in case there are infections.
The pandemic has also affected the recordings of the contests. Now they are done without an audience and to reinforce security, daily tests are carried out. “The presenter and the contestant are tested for antigens”, indicate from CARTV. PCR tests are planned for reporters from sports and programs such as ‘Aragoneses por el mundo’, both when leaving and returning from travel. The latter, which travels several countries in search of expatriates, was broadcast again at Christmas and has to also comply with the regulations of each place to which it travels.
The Corporation recognizes that the “protocols have been adapted since the state of alarm was decreed.” At this time, the prevention committee would be working on updating them.
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