Germany’s Oktoberfest Celebration Cancelled For 2020 Due To Covid-19

Germany's Oktoberfest is canceled.

Markus Söder, Bavaria's minister president, and Dieter Reiter, Munich's lord mayor, announced the news together Tuesday, citing the coronavirus pandemic as the reason for the cancellation.

"It hurts, it's such a pity," Söder said, as noted in comments shared on the Oktoberfest website from the news conference. "We have agreed that the risk is simply too high."

The German beer festival, scheduled to take place Sept. 19 through Oct. 4, expected nearly 6 million guests to attend. According to Reuters, Oktoberfest brings in 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) into Munich.

Coronavirus could spread rapidly through beer tents, streets and alleyways if guests crowded Munich for the festival.

Germany has seen more than 147,500 cases of coronavirus, and more than 4,860 people have died, according to Johns Hopkins data.

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