Cannes Launches With COVID Confusion and Saliva Tests That Require Festival-Goers to Spit in a Tube
Written by Site Hub on July 7, 2021
Cannes Film Festival is now testing for COVID-19 using an extensive spit test.
On Monday, a new intern, Olivia Wilson, working at the American Pavilion underwent the test. Wilson estimated she spit about 15 times and that it was difficult to produce saliva after awhile.
Variety reported:
“The annual Cannes Film Festival launches this week in sweltering July beach weather with a formidable roster of auteurs, Spike Lee as the jury president, soon-to-be-unveiled couture and face masks. For the first time since World War II, Cannes was canceled last year, due to COVID-19. While infection rates from the global pandemic have dipped as a result of massive vaccination efforts, the Delta variant has produced hot spots around the world. For Cannes — a gathering that draws filmmakers and journalists from all over the world — that has led to new complications for a film festival that’s trying to make a comeback during the COVID era.”
