Premium Content Subscriber only It's Easter and lots of businesses will be closed for the long weekend and Bluesfest isn't the only event cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions. A Public Health Order was in place in Lismore, Ballina, Byron Bay and Tweed Local Government Areas until at least least 11.59pm on Monday, April 5 after a COVID-19 case was detected on the Northern Rivers. Here are the events we know have been cancelled so far: ⢠Bluesfest Byron Bay was cancelled by the State Government was cancelled "to minimise the risk of the highly infectious COVID-19 variant of concern being transmitted in the local area, as well as across states and territories".