PARIS (Sputnik) – The Cannes Film Festival will not be held from 12-23 May, as scheduled, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and may be postponed until the end of June, the organizers said on Thursday.
The organizers added they would make their decision known later, following consultation with the French government, Cannes City Hall, festival board members, film industry professionals and partners of the festival.
On 18 March, the French government banned all public gatherings and social contact, placing the whole country on lockdown from midday on Tuesday for at least 15 days, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus.
France has registered 9,043 COVID-19 cases so far, while the death toll has reached 243, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University.
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