Coachella and Stagecoach, two of the largest music festivals within the U.S., will now not require festivalgoers to put on face masks or present a adverse COVID-19 check in 2022.

Stagecoach, a rustic music occasion held on the identical venue as Coachella in Indio, California, confirmed on Twitter that it is dropping masks and adverse check necessities this 12 months. The pageant is scheduled to happen from April 29 to Could 1.

"Pageant Admission Replace: As we put together to spend an unimaginable weekend within the desert collectively we're asserting that there will probably be no vaccination, testing or masking necessities at Stagecoach 2022, in accordance with native pointers," the official Stagecoach Twitter account introduced on Tuesday.

Whereas no Coachella social media outlet has made an announcement, the pageant's "Well being and Security" part on its web site has been up to date to replicate the brand new guidelines in its high-quality print. Coachella, set to be held on April 15-17 and April 22-24, noticed 99,000 attendees a day in the course of the 2019 pageant, in keeping with Insider.

Each festivals beforehand introduced that proof of vaccination wouldn't be required for entry within the fall of final 12 months. The elimination of all necessities comes as California is about to drop proof-of-vaccination guidelines for all giant out of doors gatherings, a change that can go into impact on Wednesday.

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The Coachella and Stagecoach music festivals will now not require face masks or adverse COVID-19 checks for attendees. Above, an aerial view of Coachella 2019.Wealthy Fury/Getty Pictures for Coachella

The modifications are understood to have been spurred by the demographic requirements of Stagecoach, in keeping with Selection. Being that each Coachella and Stagecoach are promoted underneath the identical umbrella, Coachella additionally wanted to lose the COVID-related necessities, even when extra of its attendees would have been high-quality with them.

"It has been extensively understood that, within the present political local weather, it will be near inconceivable to tug off a rustic music pageant with COVID restrictions that a lot of the demographic finds onerous, with many chafing even at a requirement for adverse checks," Chris Willman wrote for Selection. "It is also been assumed that Stagecoach wouldn't be capable to loosen any such restrictions with out its sister pageant adopting the identical pointers or lack of them."

That is the primary time that Coachella and Stagecoach will probably be held in two years after the 2020 and 2021 occasions had been canceled amid the continuing pandemic. Kanye West, Billie Eilish, Harry Types, and Swedish Home Mafia are set to headline Coachella this 12 months; Carrie Underwood, Thomas Rhett and Luke Combs are headlining Stagecoach.

Circumstances of COVID-19 have been on the decline throughout the U.S. in latest weeks, after hovering to new highs on the again of the Omicron variant firstly of 2022. COVID instances in California peaked on January 13 with round 119,000 new instances, in keeping with the state's division of well being. Day by day case numbers dropped precipitously within the subsequent month, with simply shy of 34,000 instances being reported on Valentine's Day.