Dutch health authorities said on Saturday they had detected 61 Covid-19 cases among people who flew from SA on Friday
“Vigorous applause because there is a BUS that has come to take us ... somewhere,” tweeted New York Times journalist Stephanie Nolen, a passenger on the flight from Johannesburg, during the long wait on Friday.
The new variant has been detected just as many European countries are grappling with a surge in coronavirus cases. "Last night several Omicron-typical mutations were found in a traveller returning from South Africa," tweeted Kai Klose, social affairs minister in Hesse, home to Frankfurt airport, Germany's biggest hub and one of Europe's busiest airports.
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