Oktoberfest To Return In 2022 After Virus Hiatus

The Oktoberfest would be held "without conditions or restrictions", Munich mayor Dieter Reiter told a press conference.

Germany's iconic Oktoberfest beer festival will once again take place in Munich in 2022 after being cancelled two years running due to the coronavirus, the city's mayor said Friday.

The Oktoberfest would be held "without conditions or restrictions", Munich mayor Dieter Reiter told a press conference.

The world-renowned knees-up  drew around six million visitors annually before the pandemic. It was cancelled in 2020 for the first time since World War II after the outbreak of the virus.

The festival, usually held between September and October, was cancelled again in 2021 as Germany battled consecutive deadly waves of the virus.