Sky News anchor suspended for breaching virus restrictions | KAMR
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Up to date:LONDON (AP) — British broadcaster Sky News has taken a person of its top information anchors off the air for 6 months right after she threw a birthday bash that violated coronavirus constraints.
The channel said Thursday that Kay Burley had agreed to be off air for 6 months “as a final result of an inside overview.” Sky News stated it “takes breaches like this quite significantly in fact.”
Burley threw a 60th birthday bash at a London restaurant on Saturday. Under present limits in the British cash, persons from distinctive households can not satisfy indoors.
Two reporters who attended the gathering, political editor Beth Rigby and correspondent Inzaman Rashid, will be off-air for three months, Sky News reported.
Burley, who has been a presenter on Sky News because the channel’s debut in 1989, explained she had agreed “to phase back again from my broadcasting job for a time period of reflection.
“It’s apparent to me that we are all in the battle towards COVID-19 and that we all have a obligation to adhere firmly by the policies,” she mentioned in a assertion. “It doesn’t issue that I assumed I was COVID-compliant on a new social function. The fact is I was improper, I manufactured a huge miscalculation, and I am sorry.”