Forty ?
Too much for them!
The Dutch gendarmerie announced on Sunday that it had arrested on a plane at Amsterdam-Schiphol airport a couple who had "fled" a hotel where passengers positive for Covid-19 from South Africa had been placed in quarantine.
"The arrests took place while the plane was about to take off," said the royal constabulary (gendarmerie) on Twitter, adding that the couple had been handed over to health authorities.
De Koninklijke Marechaussee op Schiphol heeft vanavond een echtpaar aangehouden dat uit een quarantainehotel was gevlucht.
De aanhoudingen vonden plaats in een vliegtuig dat op het punt stond te vertrekken.
Beide personen zijn overgedragen aan from GGD.
- Koninklijke Marechaussee (@Marechaussee) November 28, 2021
These two passengers arrested on Sunday were among the 61 passengers who had tested positive for Covid-19 on Saturday after disembarking from South Africa.
They had been placed in quarantine in a hotel near the airport.
“The Omicron variant has so far been identified in 13 of the positive tests.
But the investigation is not yet over.
The new variant could be found in other samples, ”the National Institute of Public Health (RIVM) said on Sunday.
According to Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, security guards should normally ensure that people tested for Covid-19 stay in their rooms.
Outside, it is the police who keep watch.
No one yet knows how the couple got out of the hotel or how the constabulary was made aware of their escape.
Dutch TV channel At5 said the couple were on a plane to Spain when they were arrested.
The investigation will have to determine the circumstances of this leak.
"It is currently difficult to know if the couple will be prosecuted," said At5.
In theory, the couple face up to four years in prison for violating their quarantine.
