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Glastonbury Festival has been cancelled due to coronavirus, the event organisers confirmed.

The iconic UK festival, which was due to kick off on June 24, has been axed and pushed back to next year as the life-threatening virus continues to worsen with cases and death rates rising.

A statement was released on Glastonbury’s official Twitter account.

This read: “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.”

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A full statement also read: This read: “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.

“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 - and in times of such unprecedented uncertainty - this is now our only viable option."

“We very much hope that the situation in the UK will have improved enormously by the end of June. But even if it has, we are no longer able to spend the next three months with thousands of crew here on the farm, helping us with the enormous job of building the infrastructure and attractions needed to welcome more than 200,000 people to a temporary city in these fields.”

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“We would like to send our sincere apologies to the 135,000 people who have already paid a deposit for a Glastobury 2020 ticket, which is why we would like to offer all those people the chance to roll their £50 deposit over to next year, and guarantee the opportunity to buy a ticket for Glastonbury 2021.

“Those who would prefer a refund of that £50 will be able to contact See Tickets in the coming days in order to secure that.”

It's a major set back for the Glastonbury, having pulled in a string of high-profile acts to mark the 50th anniversary of the Somerset-based festival.

Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift, Diana Ross, and Lana Del Rey were all due to perform at the five-day event.

More than 250,000 festival-goers were due to descend on the famous farm, with information about refunds set to be released in due course.