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Cannes Launches With COVID Confusion and ‘Disgusting’ Saliva Tests That Require Festival-Goers to Spit in a Tube
Ramin Setoodeh Executive EditorOn Monday afternoon, Olivia Wilson had arrived from her home in Tennessee to the Cannes Film Festival, where she’ll be working as an intern at the American Pavilion. But before she got to enjoy the flashiest film festival in the world, she had to spit over and over again in a plastic tube to make sure she didn’t have COVID-19.In Cannes, the saliva test will be the preferred method of checking for COVID by Biogroup, the laboratory hired to fight the spread of the virus that has killed 4 million people around the world.
