As revealed by

Le Parisien on

Monday, many radio mornings were disrupted on Monday.

For good reason, several participants in the program 

On est en direct 

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 broadcast and absent from the air this morning, had been 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 "is doing well so far".

For his part, Laurent Ruquier, the host

of On is live

, who has already had Covid-19 and is doubly vaccinated, will continue to present

The Big Heads

.

His colleague Pascal Praud (

The listeners have the floor

) will also present his program from the RTL 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 hosts work remotely.

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