An office building on Los Angeles’ Sony Pictures lot has been shut down after the studio was informed that a recent visitor tested positive for coronavirus, multiple insiders told Variety exclusively.
On Tuesday, the studio sent out a wide memo informing staff that an unidentified person who attended a March 3 meeting inside the lot’s Astaire building (named for actor and dancer Fred) had contracted COVID-19.
While no subsequent cases of coronavirus have been reported at the Culver City, Calif., headquarters, and employees are now past the 14-day incubation period in which symptoms are said to manifest, leadership has shuttered the Astaire building and ordered a deep cleaning.
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