Star’s wedding leads to 100 virus cases
It's believed more than 100 people contracted COVID-19 at a high profile wedding in Mexico earlier this month.
Approximately 300 people attended the lavish nuptials between soap opera actor Armando Torrea, and the daughter of a businessman, according to Mexican authorities.
The wedding was held in Mexicali, a border city in the Mexican state of Baja California. The state's health secretary, Alonso Oscar Pérez Rico, said the wedding went ahead without temperature checks or masks for guests, and the bride and groom had not been given permission to hold an event of that size.
He said on Monday "just over a hundred people" linked with the wedding had tested positive for COVID-19, according to Mexican newspaper El Financiero.
Al menos 100 invitados a la boda del actor Armando Torrea, realizada en Baja California, México, terminaron contagiados de coronavirus.
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Mr Perez Rico said they're now investigating whether an individual knowingly attended the event while infected with coronavirus.
Photos from the wedding show guests dancing and celebrating without masks and not practising social distancing.
In the state of Baja California, more than 21,800 cases of COVID-19 have been reported since the start of the pandemic. More than 10,200 of those have been within the city of Mexicali.
Originally published as Star's wedding leads to 100 virus cases
