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Glastonbury Festival 2020 has officially been cancelled as the UK continues to battle coronavirus.
In a statement, the festival said cancellation was the only “viable option”, but said ticket-holders would have the chance to guarantee their place for next year’s event.
The statement said: “We are so sorry to announce this, but Glastonbury 2020 will have to be cancelled, and this will be an enforced fallow year for the festival.
We are so sorry to announce this, but we are going to have to cancel Glastonbury 2020. Tickets for this year will roll over to next year. Full statement below and on our website. Michael & Emily pic.twitter.com/ox8kcQ0HoB
— Glastonbury Festival (@glastonbury) March 18, 2020
“Clearly this was not a course of action we hoped to take for our 50th anniversary event, but following the new government measures announced this week â and in times of such unprecedented uncertainty â this is now our only viable option.”
It comes after the first full wave of acts was unveiled last week, led by headliners Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift and Paul McCartney.  At that point, the festival vowed to carry on in the hope that the virus crisis would improve.
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