Mexico: ”Festival organizers apologize after packed parties without social distancing or masks in Mexico”

The organizers of a “international arts, music and cultural festival” have apologized after images and video posted on social media revealed packed crowds of partiers without masks in Mexico’s hipster resort town of Tulum.

With art installations and trancey electronic music sets that echoed Burning Man, yoga workshops and “food and wine happenings,” the five-day Art With Me festival drew hundreds of attendees in mid-November. Tickets, priced in the hundreds of dollars, had sold out weeks earlier.

Now, as first reported by the Daily Beast, accounts of tourists from New York City and Miami falling sick after partying at Art With Me are raising fears they could have spread the coronavirus among each other — and brought it home again.