Hungary's Sziget Festival canceled due to pandemic

The organizers of "Sziget," one of Europe's largest festivals, canceled the event for 2021, citing uncertainties linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, reported Xinhua.

"With a heavy heart, but acting with responsibility, taking into account all the uncertainty regarding travel, the catering industry, and the national and international role of immunity cards, we have decided that we would focus our efforts on organizing next year's Sziget Festival," Tamas Kadar, the main organizer of Sziget Festival, said in a statement Thursday.

The Sziget Festival was organized for the last time in 2019, when it welcomed over 530,000 people from more than 100 countries and regions for seven days.

Sziget's program consists of several forms of art. The site features a great number of stages and workshops with performance art, cabaret, comedy, acrobatics and dancing.

Earlier this year, the other two major music festivals in Hungary, the Sopron Volt Festival and the Balaton Sound Festival, were also canceled.