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The eMedia Investments building in Cape Town, which houses e.tv News and eNCA, closed abruptly on Wednesday following the news that one of the cameramen at media house Lungile Tom had died after hiring Covid-19. .
The building will undergo a deep cleaning while more than 70 employees will isolate themselves in their home for 14 days.
Leave the e.tv news division in a specific dilemma for now: there will be no Cape Town-based reporters and cameramen who can wander outside to report on the location of eNCA (DStv 403), eNuus on kykNET (DStv 144) and kykNET & Kie (DStv 145), and the e.tv newsletters.
The temporary closure of the building places a heavier burden on the office and studios at eMedia Hyde Park in Johannesburg, which will have to cover the Cape Town and Western Cape news.
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Nuruniesa Allie, head of e.tv news and sports, told eNCA and e.tv News on Wednesday night that “the entire building will undergo a thorough cleaning, and only once officials are satisfied with that process we will be issued a certificate to allow people to return to the building. “
Allie said, “We’ve been through a tracking and tracing process. Basically, it’s about identifying all the staff members who had direct contact with Lungile Tom, so they were tested.”
Devastated
“For the rest of us, because we operate in an open floor space, the rest of us are in 14 days of self-isolation since the last time Lungile had been in the office.
“It is an extraordinary time for our company, for many companies in South Africa. And all of our attention and effort goes to our staff and ensures that they continue to be safe and comply with government regulations,” Allie said.
ENCA presenter Sally Burdett said the thoughts come “to our electronic television family, particularly in Cape Town, where I know everyone is totally gutted and devastated” by Tom’s death.
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