Mexico's 'all-inclusive' hotel package includes Covid-19 tests for guests

More than half of the 1,129 hotels along Mexico’s Riviera Maya stretch of Caribbean coast now offer the Covid-19 facilities, according to the regional authorities. — AFP

Never mind the unlimited food and drink, the latest all-inclusive hotel perks tempting tourists to pandemic-hit Mexico are free Covid-19 tests and extended stays for anyone who catches the coronavirus.

It was enough to persuade Natalia Garzon, a 38-year-old Colombian living in the United States, to jet off to the Caribbean resort of Cancun for a weekend.