Netflix Vows to Deep Clean ‘The Witcher’ Set After Actor Tests Positive for Coronavirus

Netflix will conduct a deep cleaning of “The Witcher” set after one of the fantasy series’ actors tested positive for the coronavirus.Kristofer Hivju, a “Game of Thrones” veteran who will appear in “The Witcher” Season 2, revealed that he had tested positive for the coronavirus in an Instagram post Monday.

Around the same time, Netflix sent an email to the show’s production team noting that an “individual” had contracted the virus.

Though the company did not specify the individual, Deadline reported that it was Hivju.More from IndieWire’Crip Camp‘: Directors Jim Lebrecht and Nicole Newnham’s Documentary Uncovers a Forgotten HistoryChina Opens First Movie Theater Since Coronavirus Shut Down, but No One Shows UpNetflix told Deadline that it would immediately be closing production offices as well as Arborfield Studios, where the series is shot, and “arranging for deep cleaning and disinfection” of both.

Netflix representative also stated

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