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The infected are currently being quarantined in one of the hotels near Schiphol Airport, where all 600 passengers on both flights were forced to wait for the test results on Friday.
Those infected will have to spend seven days in quarantine if they show symptoms of the disease, and five days if they do not.
On the other hand, passengers who have passed the tests must go in self-isolation if they remain in the Netherlands.
Scientists in the Republic of South Africa reported on Thursday that they had identified a new variant of Covid-19 with a large number of mutations responsible for the rapid increase in infections.