Bavaria cancels Oktoberfest for the second time due to COVID-19

The Oktoberfest beer festival, which traditionally takes place in autumn in Munich, will not take place again due to the CORONAVIRUS pandemic. This was announced at a press conference by the Prime Minister of Bavaria Markus Söder and Mayor of Munich Dieter Reiter, reports Deutsche Welle.

They explained this decision by the unpredictable situation with covid-19 and called it unrealistic to hold a beer festival in compliance with the mask regime and social distance between the participants.

Söder and Reiter added that a later cancellation of Oktoberfest would have caused even more economic and image damage to the organisers.

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Oktoberfest has been canceled for the second year in a row. In 2020, the Bavarian government also canceled the beer festival due to the threat of the spread of the coronavirus.