How The Block is continuing during COVID-19 crisis
Production on popular reality TV show The Block has resumed with a raft of safety precautions in place, with host Scott Cam revealing how the new measures have changed the show.
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The Block has put in place a raft of strict health and safety conditions to ensure its restarted production can continue without further delay during the COVID-19 crisis.
Contestants and crew returned to the construction site in the up-market Melbourne bayside suburb of Brighton on Monday after filming was halted at the end of March as the corona issue escalated.
“We have a nurse on site full time, we have built a little clinic, everyone gets temperature tested every morning, we have all had flu vaccinations, we have a limited number of people allowed in each room and we have finished the actual structure of the houses that we are building in Brighton, so the outside is finished and our team of builders is down to a skeleton crew,” celebrity tradie Scott Cam said.
“Basically the contestants will be inside their homes fitting out the actual house.”
Hand sanitiser dispensers are also positioned around the site.
The Block has joined Neighbours and MasterChef as the three TV productions that are filming in Melbourne with rigorous new safety and social distancing rules during the COVID-19 lockdown.
MasterChef is filming at the Melbourne Showgrounds while Neighbours is shooting at the show’s longtime home in Nunawading.
Katy Perry is a guest judge MasterChef this week.
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