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.
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Those infected will have to spend seven days in quarantine if they show symptoms of the disease, and five days if they do not.
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On the other hand, passengers who have passed the tests must go in self-isolation if they remain in the Netherlands.
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Breaking: Flights arriving at Amsterdam Schiphol from South Africa are having to inform passengers they cannot leave the aircraft yet amid sudden #NuVariant restrictions
The passengers (who expected to arrive as normal) must now be tested & quarantined pic.twitter.com/Efqn4BbNKQ
– Alex Macheras (@AlexInAir) November 26, 2021
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Of the 600 passengers on flights from SA that landed in NL yesterday, 61 have tested positive for COVID19. It is not yet known whether they’re infected with new Omicron variant.
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– anna holligan ???? (@annaholligan) November 27, 2021
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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.
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In South Africa, the worst affected country in Covid-19, the number of new infections registered in a single day has increased tenfold since the beginning of the month, from 106 to around 1,200.
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In response, many countries, including the European Union (EU), have suspended flights from southern Africa.
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