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Corona outbreak in vacation flyers: flight from Greece ends in disaster - "full of Covidiotes"

2020-08-31T19:03:33.028Z


A corona outbreak occurs on a vacation plane from Greece. Allegedly, a number of passengers were negligent with their face masks.


A corona outbreak occurs on a vacation plane from Greece.

Allegedly, a number of passengers were negligent with their face masks.

  • Coronavirus pandemic

    *

    : There

    is a

    corona

    *

    outbreak

    on a

    TUI

    holiday

    plane.

  • The plane flew from the Greek holiday island of

    Zakynthos

    to

    Cardiff in Great Britain (Wales)

    .

  • A passenger raises charges against the crew: Allegedly some passengers were wearing their

    face masks

    to protect against

    Covid-19

    *

    only sloppy.

Munich / Cardiff - The next spectacular

Corona

*

outbreak - this time on a TUI holiday plane from

Greece

to

Great Britain

.

After a flight from the picturesque holiday island of

Zakynthos

to

Cardiff in Wales

, 16

coronavirus cases were

found that are linked to the trip mentioned.

Corona outbreak in a German TUI holiday plane from Greece to Wales

The British The Guardian reports on this.

Even more: According to the report, seven of the total of 200 passengers were allegedly suspected of being

infected with Covid 19

on the flight itself

.

The passengers had been tested after their arrival in the UK.

The 200 passengers on the flight now have to go into quarantine.

+

Picturesque: the Greek holiday island of Zakynthos.

© Tui / dpa

The

travel company TUI

, based in Berlin and Hanover, announced

an investigation

after the

corona incident

in one of its aircraft.

The question behind it: How did this disaster come about?

A British passenger on the flight now raised allegations against fellow passengers and the crew - with sharp choice of words.

In focus: the

face masks

.

Corona outbreak in TUI aircraft: passenger raises allegations because of face masks

"Many of the people wore the masks under their noses or even under their chins," said Stephanie Whitfield

on

BBC Radio 4,

according to

The Guardian

: "They took the masks off to talk to friends and they walked up and down the aisles to talk to her friends without masks. "

"The vast majority" of the passengers had not been reminded of the

mask requirement

by the crew

, she said: "Next to me sat a man who wore his mask around his chin during the entire flight, and the stewardess spoke to him and said nothing to him."

Coronavirus in TUI planes: Covid-19 infections on the flight - did passengers not wear face masks?

According to the report, Whitfield became

drastic

in her

Corona allegations

(and the choice of words): "The flight was full of selfish 'Covidiots' and an incompetent crew who could not care less." (Pm)

* Merkur.de is part of the Germany-wide Ippen digital editorial network

Source: merkur

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