Dutch find 61 Covid positive on ‘dystopia’ flights from South Africa
Dutch health authorities said Saturday the new Omicron strain of Covid-19 was “probably” among some of the 61 passengers who tested positive after arriving on two flights from South Africa.
The cases — more than one tenth of the 600 people on the two planes — were quarantined in a hotel near Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, one of Europe’s biggest international air travel hubs.
“The Omicron variant was probably found in a number of people who have been tested,” positive, the National Institute for Public Health (RIVM) said in a statement late Saturday.
