As Canada faces record COVID-19 infection rates and stay-at-home orders, major Hollywood studios and streamers have kept shooting movies and TV series on bubble-wrapped film and TV sets in Toronto, Vancouver and elsewhere countrywide. "Everyone is on high alert right now," Johonniuss Chemweno, CEO of New Mexico-based VIP Star Network, which conducts diagnostic testing for Hollywood film cast and crews, including on Canadian soundstages, tells The Hollywood Reporter.
Months-long efforts by Canadian studio operators, producers, unions and guilds to work with top studios to bolster on-set coronavirus safety measures for actors and crews, including testing, have so far paid off. "Ultimately, we don't want any exposure on set.