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The German Big Brother Cast Just Heard About the Coronavirus

After weeks spent in isolation from the outside world, the cast of Germany’s version of Big Brother finally heard about the coronavirus Tuesday night.

“Please don’t get scared. Let me just explain why we are sitting behind a glass wall,” host Jochen Schropp told the season’s 14 cast members, who were separated from him throughout the special by a protective barrier. Most of the cast has been living in the Big Brother house near the city of Cologne since filming began in early February, but all that time, the show’s producers didn’t share any news with them from the outside world.

As the cast members gathered in their living room, Schropp told them that “a disease called COVID-19 had spread across the world.” He promised that their loved ones are healthy and then showed them a video about what has happened over the course of recent weeks. But how do you explain this pandemic to someone who has been cut off from the world? The video summarized the coronavirus crisis in a broad sense, informing the cast about social-distancing policies, the fact that bars and clubs had to close, and showing footage of empty streets in Germany and Italy, but it left out grimmer details about how Italian hospitals have run out of ICU beds, and how curfews are in place across Europe for the foreseeable future.

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