EXCLUSIVE: The Berlin Film Festival, which got underway on Thursday evening, has recorded more than 50 positive Covid results from its testing procedures, organizers have confirmed to us. A festiva…
, which got underway on Thursday evening, has recorded more than 50 positive Covid results from its testing procedures, organizers have confirmed to us.Since the beginning of the festival we have only detected eight cases of positive tests among the film teams.
Anyone who tests positive must quarantine for 10 days, which can be reduced to seven days after a negative antigen test. Germany is currently experiencing a peak in the highly transmissible Omicron variant. The country registered 151,000 cases yesterday and 122 deaths. There are currently 3.4M active cases in the country but only 0.1 percent of those people are in a serious or critical condition.
By comparison, Cannes claimed last June that it was recording an average of three positive Covid results per day and doing up to 3,000 tests per day. The
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