The Byron Bay Blues Festival has been cancelled for the second year running following a local case of COVID-19 was discovered.
The world famous event was to run from tomorrow across the long weekend, and expecting up to 15,000 people to attend.
The new case, a man in his 20s, attended the Byron Beach Hotel, from Brisbane on March 26 with three friends, who have since tested negative for COVID-19.
The cancellation comes as masks were made mandatory in NSW’s north along with a raft of social-distancing restrictions.