Coronation Street bosses are determined to keep the hit ITV soap so coronavirus free zone and allow the cobbles to be an escape from the real world when the show returns to filming episodes again later this year.
According to insiders, show bosses have made the decision to not write anything to do with the ongoing pandemic into the upcoming storylines.
Another reason sources say for the decision is that bosses have no idea when the show will return to air full time and thus, terms like "social distancing" may be obsolete.
A source told The Sun Online: "They were finishing scenes that had already been written, so there are no references to social distancing and the like. "As the episodes won’t air until the summer they wouldn’t have known –
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