At least 15 infected passengers on flights from South Africa
At least 15 passengers on the two KLM flights from South Africa that arrived at Schiphol earlier today have tested positive for the corona virus. There were a total of more than 600 passengers on the planes, all of whom had to be tested. According to the GGD Kennemerland, the first 110 test results have now been received, of which 15 are positive.
Based on that outcome, the GGD expects a “finding percentage” of 13.6 percent. “That means that we take into account approximately 85 positive corona tests in total.” It is not yet known with which variant of the corona virus the positively tested travelers are infected.
Omnikron variant
A no-fly zone has been in effect from South Africa and other countries in southern Africa since 12 noon, due to a new corona variant that has been discovered there. It concerns the so-called omikron variant, which is currently mainly circulating in South Africa and Botswana. According to a WHO working group, this variant of the coronavirus seems to be spreading faster than other variants.
At the time the outgoing cabinet announced the flight ban, two more flights from South Africa were en route to the Netherlands. The passengers all had to be tested at Schiphol this afternoon. Special test streets were set up at the airport for this purpose.
Travelers who already have a negative result are allowed to leave the airport. They do have to be in home quarantine for another five days at home. Passengers who have tested positive will be transferred to an isolation hotel at or near Schiphol.
Wait, isn’t there still an obligation for a negative test before flying?
So which of the following 2 is it:
1. South Africa isn’t testing (all) passengers flying to foreign countries
2. South Africa is faking the tests results of passengers flying to foreign countries
Remember, these 15 are only out of 110 returned tests results with still ~490 results to go. There’s no fucking away all these people tested negative in South Africa only for 13.6% of them to test positive 11.5 hours later.
That’s why we need at least a week of quarantine plus PCR at the end for all non-domestic flights worldwide, no exceptions.
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At least 15 infected passengers on flights from South Africa
At least 15 passengers on the two KLM flights from South Africa that arrived at Schiphol earlier today have tested positive for the corona virus. There were a total of more than 600 passengers on the planes, all of whom had to be tested. According to the GGD Kennemerland, the first 110 test results have now been received, of which 15 are positive.
Based on that outcome, the GGD expects a “finding percentage” of 13.6 percent. “That means that we take into account approximately 85 positive corona tests in total.” It is not yet known with which variant of the corona virus the positively tested travelers are infected.
Omnikron variant
A no-fly zone has been in effect from South Africa and other countries in southern Africa since 12 noon, due to a new corona variant that has been discovered there. It concerns the so-called omikron variant, which is currently mainly circulating in South Africa and Botswana. According to a WHO working group, this variant of the coronavirus seems to be spreading faster than other variants.
At the time the outgoing cabinet announced the flight ban, two more flights from South Africa were en route to the Netherlands. The passengers all had to be tested at Schiphol this afternoon. Special test streets were set up at the airport for this purpose.
Travelers who already have a negative result are allowed to leave the airport. They do have to be in home quarantine for another five days at home. Passengers who have tested positive will be transferred to an isolation hotel at or near Schiphol.
Wait, isn’t there still an obligation for a negative test before flying?
So which of the following 2 is it:
1. South Africa isn’t testing (all) passengers flying to foreign countries
2. South Africa is faking the tests results of passengers flying to foreign countries
Remember, these 15 are only out of 110 returned tests results with still ~490 results to go. There’s no fucking away all these people tested negative in South Africa only for 13.6% of them to test positive 11.5 hours later.
That’s why we need at least a week of quarantine plus PCR at the end for all non-domestic flights worldwide, no exceptions.
61 people tested positive, so just over 10%