narly wrote:
Who tested positive for Covid ? Botham & Punter are negative . Mel or Brayshaw ?
“I was diagnosed on the 26th,” McLaughlin said on Friday. “I am double-vaxxed, I’d had the booster shot, I was producing negative daily rapid tests and then on Boxing Day night my PCR test was positive and my dream gig of hosting the Boxing Day Test was over.”
McLaughlin confirmed she’d tested negative in daily tests conducted by Seven on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and on Boxing Day morning, before developing a few symptoms later that evening and conducting a PCR test.
That test came back positive.
“It was a very big shock,” she said.
The Seven commentator said her symptoms developed overnight.
“I got a bit croaky, runny nose, chills — I was pretty sick for a couple of days,” she said on Friday, on her fifth day of a seven-day isolation.
As part of its standard Covid protocol, Seven immediately moved to replace its entire on-air commentary line-up.