Dutch: Some of the 61 COVID-19 cases from South Africa flights are new variant

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Dutch health authorities said on Saturday they had detected 61 COVID-19 cases among people who flew from South Africa on Friday and believe at least some infections are of the new Omicron variant.

The cases were discovered among 624 passengers who arrived at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on two flights on Friday before the Dutch government restricted air traffic from southern Africa due to concerns over the variant.

A spokesperson for KLM, the Dutch arm of Air France , said the passengers on the flight had either tested negative or shown proof of vaccination before getting on planes in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Dutch health authorities were seeking to contact some 5,000 other passengers who have traveled from South Africa, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia or Zimbabwe since Monday to urge them to take a COVID-19 test as soon as possible.Paula Zimmerman, a Dutch photographer who returned from a family visit in South Africa on Friday morning, said the situation for the passengers on the planes was chaotic, as they were kept waiting on the tarmac and in the terminal for hours.

Having spent hours on a flight that likely had many infected passengers made Zimmerman anxious for the days to come, she said.

 

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