A view of the Palais des festivals during the 72nd international film festival, cannes, southern France. AP

The Cannes Film Festival will not be held this year in "its original form" due to the Coronavirus, organisers said on Tuesday.

The festival will nevertheless be made "real" in 2020, "in a way or another", they added in a statement.

The film festival, one of the largest in the world, was initially due to take place from May 12-23.

In the last three months the Coronavirus pandemic has swept the world, with a total of 1, 945,055 positive cases and 121, 897 deaths globally.

France, where the film festival holds has recorded 136,779 cases of the virus and 14,967, since the first case in Feb 15.