Coachella has been canceled for the third time due to the coronavirus pandemic

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Health officials hypothesize ordered the Coachella music festival scheduled for April to be canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. It's the third time the pestiferous has framed the almanac outside festival that draws hundreds of thousands of listeners to the California desert to be remanded or canceled.

"The Coachella Basin Music and Arts Festival and the Stagecoach Country Music Festival currently scheduled for April 2021 are hereby canceled," Riverside Shire Healthfulness Officer Dr. Cameron Lama said in an order issued Friday. Kaiser's order conjointly canceled the Stagecoach Country Music Festival, conjointly scheduled for April.

Due to the pandemic, Sociable Healthfulness Officer Dr. Cameron Lama today (Jan. 29) signed a sociable healthfulness order receipt Coachella Basin Music and Arts, Stagecoach Country Music festivals planned for April 2021. We peekaboo forward-looking to when the events may return. #

-- Dr. Cameron Lama (@RivCoDoc) January 29, 2021

"This order is intentional to reduce the likelihood of exposure to COVID-19," the order states. "If COVID-19 were detected at these festivals, the ambit and ordinal of attendees and the attributes of the venue would manufacture it infeasible, if not impossible, to clue those who may be placed at risk."

Coachella's 2020 festival was originally scheduled for April 2020, then later postponed to October 2020, vanward finally concreteness scrapped altogether until April 2021. There's no word from organizers or healthfulness officials approximately when Coachella will be rescheduled, but Billboard is reporting it may be pushed to October. And if vaccine employers continues to lag and coronavirus cases pension multiplying, it's palatable we'll alpha to see other large spring and summer events remanded or canceled. as well.

Coachella organizers didn't instantaneously reply to a request for increasingly tidings Saturday.

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