Sales, who was due to return to the 7.30 desk next Monday, posted a video on Instagram updating her followers on her run of bad luck during an otherwise “gorgeous” break. “I was bitten on the nose by a mouse that was in my bed, out in the country,” she said with a laugh. “So that was really quite unexpected and a little disturbing. “And the other exciting thing that’s happened is I’ve got a little sniffle, so I did a RAT and it turns out I have Covid. “So that’s going to now keep me at home for a little bit longer and so I won’t be back at work until Monday week.”Sales, who is triple-vaxxed, said it served as a good reminder for people to get their Covid booster shot if they’re currently eligible. “I feel very relaxed about it all because I’ve had my three shots, and I followed the data and statistics and if you’re vaccinated and you’re healthy, your chance of having any form of serious illness from Covid is very, very small,” she said. “So do the right thing, exercise some common sense, and take care of yourself and the people around you and get vaccinated.”Sales’ followers wished her a speedy recovery in the comments, although the mouse attack appeared to rattle people more than the Covid diagnosis. “The mouse situation strikes me as far more horrific,” writer and broadcaster Benjamin Law said. “A bite from a mouse followed by a (positive) RAT! That’s quite a combination,” former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull wrote.“Feeling sort of bad about putting the (mouse) in your bed now,” journalist Annabel Crabb joked. Sales’ update has come as the ABC takes veteran weatherman Paul Higgins off-air after he was allegedly caught in a “serious breach” of the broadcaster’s Covid protocols. Higgins, who has been a presenter on the ABC for nearly 20 years, has been missing from screens for the past fortnight.His absence from on-air duties comes after he allegedly failed to isolate while awaiting results from a PCR test and continued to work as the main newsreader for multiple bulletins, the Herald Sun reported.Sources told the publication the Melbourne newsroom was stunned when Higgins stood up and reportedly announced he had just received the results of a positive test, an outrage that was further fuelled when he allegedly proceeded to walk around the newsroom without a mask.
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