Day 0 at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival and the event’s on-site Covid testing facility has experienced some early teething problems.
This morning, the system went down for roughly an hour, prohibiting those who had turned up with booked appointments.Early-risers waited in line from 8AM local time at the Biogroup site near the Palais and were eventually turned away as staff were unable to register tests.
One employee at the facility told Deadline that there had been a connectivity problem with the central server but that it had since been resolved.The site was fully operational again by 9.30AM and was working smoothly by the time this reporter turned up for his test.
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