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Passengers are waiting to be sampled at Schiphol Airport. PHOTO: Reuters
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A total of 61 people, who arrived in the Netherlands on Friday with two flights from the Republic of South Africa, tested positive for coronavirus and are in isolation, the Associated Press reported, quoted by BTA.
Passengers arriving at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport are undergoing additional tests to see if any of them are infected with the new variant of omicron virus, first discovered in South Africa and causing new concern around the world.
The rapid spread of the new option among young people in South Africa has alarmed health professionals. In just two weeks, Omicron reversed the situation in the country, and after a period of low prevalence there began to report rapid growth.
Two planes arrived in the Netherlands from Johannesburg and Cape Town shortly after the Dutch government, among others, imposed a ban on flights from southern Africa yesterday because of the omicron.
The Dutch health authorities said that people with a positive test would have to be quarantined for seven days if they had symptoms and for five if they did not.
The remaining 539 passengers who took the negative test were given the opportunity to return home if they were Dutch citizens or to continue their journey to other countries.
According to government regulations, those living in the Netherlands must isolate themselves for at least five days.
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