Coachella put off for third time amid coronavirus pandemic

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival was put off for the second consecutive year amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Cameron Kaiser, the public health officer for Riverside County in California where the multiday event is held each year, announced the cancellation on Friday. Coachella is an event of “international scope” and draws in thousands of attendees from countries across the globe, “including several disproportionately afflicted” by the pandemic, according to the public health order canceling the event.