In a video launched at this time, Game of Thrones writer George R.R. Martin has revealed that he has contracted covid-19 throughout his time at San Diego Comic-Con, which was deliberate as half of a bigger West Coast journey that was supposed to incorporate attending the premiere of House of the Dragon. Instead, the writer has cancelled his remaining conferences and is isolating in a resort room.

Despite skipping events, staying off the conference ground, and cancelling his in-person autograph session, Martin says he started to really feel barely symptomatic a day or two afterwards, as he drove as much as Los Angeles. He reassures his followers that he feels positive and his signs are delicate. He says that it’s a “mystery to him” how he caught the virus, as no one round him has examined constructive and he wore a masks in any respect time besides in the course of the House of the Dragon panel and meals.

He hopes to get better shortly and head again to Santa Fe to renew engaged on his initiatives, together with the long-awaited remaining installment of the Ice and Fire saga, Winds of Winter.

House of the Dragon hits HBO and HBO Max August 21.

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