The general delegate of the Cannes Film Festival, Thierry Frémaux, assured Saturday that there was "no Cannes cluster".
According to him, more than 3,000 tests were carried out on Friday, for no positive case.
"We are all very careful," concluded Thierry Frémaux.
"There is no Cannes cluster," said Cannes Festival general delegate Thierry Frémaux on Saturday, on the fifth day of an edition organized against the backdrop of the Covid-19 epidemic.
"Friday, we made more than 3,000 tests and zero positive cases. All that to say that the rumors of a Cannes cluster are unfounded. We are all very careful, we all want to be exemplary, that the festival goes until 'at the end of the day, let the pandemic stop. "
The President of the Festival, Pierre Lescure, added a layer on Twitter.
"0 positive test. It was 1 the day before and 2 on average since opening," he wrote.
(1) Yesterday Friday, for all those who have access to the Palais and to the screenings (festival-goers and artists), more than 2,500 tests carried out (1 test every 48 hours for the unvaccinated).
0 positive test.
It was 1 the day before and 2 on average since opening.
- Pierre Lescure (@pierrelescure) July 10, 2021
The mask wearing rule repeated in a loop
Thursday, after the dissemination on social networks of photos showing spectators not wearing masks during screenings, Thierry Frémaux stepped up to the plate, reminding festival-goers that their wearing was the rule indoors.
A message from Pierre Lescure is even now broadcast for this purpose at each start of the screening.
A health defense council around Emmanuel Macron is to be held next Monday to take new measures to avoid a fourth wave of Covid-19 in France.