Diagnostic COVID-19 Tests 'Critical' for ‘Safe Return to Work,’ Say 4 Film and TV Unions
With content production still in widespread global lockdown from the COVID-19 pandemic, “strategic” diagnostic testing for the coronavirus “is critical for a safe return to work” for cast and crew, said “guidelines” published Friday by four unions in the film…
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and TV industry. Without testing, “cast and crew would be asked to work each day in an environment of unknown risk,” said the Directors Guild of America, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, the Teamsters and the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of TV and Radio Artists. They propose that productions set up a system of A, B and C protective “zones.” Zone A is a “bubble encasing closely vetted vulnerable people,” including performers and crew, with no social distancing or masks. Zone B “is everywhere the production has a footprint that is not Zone A,” they said. Zone C is “the outside world,” they said. “No one can be allowed access to Zone A or Zone B for the first time unless they have been tested and cleared within the last 24 hours.”