Cameras will continue rolling on Coronation Street after sudden new lockdown restrictions were introduced in Greater Manchester.
The show has confirmed that as the restrictions in the region don’t affect the workplace, and with health and safety measures already in place that are working well on the set at Trafford Wharf, it won't bring any changes to how they are currently filming.
"We continue to maintain our health and safety protocols to ensure everyone can work safely," a soap spokesperson told us.
The Coronation Street cast and crew made an emotional return to work last month following the UK lockdown in March.
Bosses explained the measures the long-running ITV soap had taken to ensure it wouldn't leave our screens for the first time in 60 years amid the coronavirus pandemic.
During lockdown Corrie has been screened three times a a week instead of six.
Hugging and kissing scenes are now banned because of social distancing as well as non-essential use of props and a colour coordinated one-way system has been installed on the set.
The number of people working in the studio has been stripped back to the 'absolute minimum.'
Cast and crew have their temperature taken as they arrive on set and location filming has been shelved indefinitely.
Producer Iain McLeod explained that while they've banned characters from hugging and kissing because of COVID-19, they've 'carefully crafted' scenes so that the romance between characters is expressed verbally instead.
Since last Friday viewers have seen new scenes, filmed after lockdown, which have incorporated COVID-19 into day-to-day living on the street.
Viewers have seen a one-way system in the Rovers Return, video calling, Sally Metcalfe wearing washing up gloves to visit the corner shop and characters paying homage to the NHS.
The show also screened the world's first socially distanced stunt involving Gary Windass and Sarah Barlow.
It appeared that Gary pushed Sarah out of the path of a car but really they were two metres apart.
