Health officials have ordered the Coachella music festival to be canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. It’s the third time the annual outdoor festival has been postponed or canceled. The festival draws hundreds of thousands of fans to the California desert.

‘the Coachella Valley music and arts festival and the stagecoach country music festival are hereby canceled,’ says Riverside county health officer Dr. Cameron Kaiser.

Public health officer Dr. Cameron Kaiser has signed a public health order canceling Coachella Valley music and arts, stagecoach country music festivals planned for April 2021. We look forward to when the events may return to April 2021.

‘this order is intended to reduce the likelihood of exposure to covid-19,’ the order States. If covid-19 were detected at these festivals, the scope and number of attendees would make it’infeasible, if not impossible, to track those who may be placed at risk’.

Coachella’s festival was originally scheduled for April 2020, then later postponed to October 2020, before being scrapped altogether until April 2021. There’s no word from organizers or health officials about when Coachella will be rescheduled, but billboard is reporting it may be pushed to October.