Paris (AFP)

Several morning radio presenters have been replaced or will have to host their shows from home for a few days, being considered as contact cases after their participation in Laurent Ruquier's television show "On est en direct".

Laurent Ruquier's show, recorded on Friday and broadcast on France 2 on Saturday in the second part of the evening, was devoted to 100 years of radio in France.

It brought together, for this occasion, many personalities including several emblematic voices of the morning.

However, as the daily Le Parisien reported on Monday, "one of the guests of this program tested positive less than two days after the recording, forcing many participants", who had posed for a group photo without masks, " to respect a period of isolation ".

It was Jean-Jacques Bourdin who sold the wick: he said Monday morning at the end of his daily interview that his RTL colleague Yves Calvi, replaced on the air by Jérôme Florin, "is positive for the Covid", but that he himself was not in contact because the journalist from RMC is, for his part, "doubly vaccinated".

Jean-Jacques Bourdin has also interviewed the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin live on RMC and BFMTV.

Asked by AFP, an RTL spokesperson said that Yves Calvi, who has no symptoms, would be replaced by Jérôme Florin for a week.

On the other hand, Laurent Ruquier, 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 premises of RTL, but as a precaution, he will be alone in a studio and all his interlocutors will intervene remotely.

On franceinfo, Marc Fauvelle had to leave the microphone to Lorrain Sénéchal.

And on France Inter, Léa Salamé co-presented the 7-9 from her home, just like her colleague from Europe 1 Matthieu Belliard who presented his morning show from a distance.

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 TF1 1:00 p.m. 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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