Coachella festival scrapped again amid virus fears

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Coachella festival scrapped again amid virus fears
In this file photo taken on April 19, 2019 SOPHIE performs at Mojave Tent during the 2019 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival on April 19, 2019 in Indio, California. Frazer Harrison / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP.



LOS ANGELES (AFP).- Organizers of the world-famous Coachella music festival, due to be held in April, have been forced to cancel the event because of coronavirus concerns, the second year in a row it has been shut down.

Cameron Kaiser, a public health officer for California's Riverside County, where the massive gathering is held, said Friday the order to cancel was based on concerns of "resurgence of Covid-19 both within the county of Riverside and worldwide."

He said the Coachella and Stagecoach music and arts festivals, both scheduled to take place in April, attract "hundreds of thousands of attendees from many countries, including several disproportionately afflicted by the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic."

"If Covid-19 were detected at these festivals, the scope and number of attendees and the nature of the venue would make it infeasible, if not impossible, to track those who may be placed at risk," Kaiser said.

Festival organizers had not said if they would attempt to find a later date for the 2021 festival.

Coachella and Stagecoach are usually held every year on two weekends in April in the California desert.

Last year, the festival had been postponed until October because of the pandemic when authorities opted to scrap it altogether.

The lineup was meant to include headliners Rage Against the Machine, Travis Scott and Frank Ocean.

According to media reports, the economy of the Coachella Valley suffered a drop in revenue of up to $700 million due to the cancellation of last year's festival.


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