Netherlands: 13 omicron cases found from South Africa flight

TheDutchpublic health authority said on Sunday that 13 people in the Netherlands have so far tested positive for the new omicron coronavirus variant.

There were 61 positive COVID cases on a flight from South Africa which landed on Friday at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, with 13 of them contracting the new variant.

The people who tested positive are being kept in isolation at a hotel near the airport.

“In our (virus) sequencing investigation, which is still ongoing, we have so far found 13 cases of the Omicron variant among the positive (passenger COVID-19) tests,” the National Institute for Health (RIVM) said in a statement.

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SOURCE: DW News

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