The couple who tested positive for COVID-19 tried to flee the Netherlands by plane, and the Dutch military police raided the flight and arrested them

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According to Russia Today (RT) reports, on the afternoon of the 28th local time, a couple who tested positive for covid-19 in the Netherlands escaped from the isolation hotel and tried to leave the Netherlands by plane, and were arrested by the Royal Dutch Gendarmerie (performing the duties of military police and civilian police, one of the four branches of the Dutch army) on the "plane that is about to take off". It is unclear whether the two men tested positive for the Aomikron variant.

RT: Gendarmerie raids planes to arrest couples trying to escape quarantine

The Royal Netherlands Gendarmerie said in a statement that the dramatic incident occurred at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in the Netherlands, which was scheduled to fly from the Netherlands to Spain at 6 p.m. on the 28th. RT reported that at present, the two men have been handed over to the health department by the military and sent to the quarantine point.

According to the Dutch local health service agency reported on the 27th, on two flights from South Africa to the Netherlands, a total of 61 passengers tested positive for the new crown virus. The Netherlands National Institute of Public Health and Environment said on the 28th that 13 more confirmed cases of infection with the Aumecreon strain were found among the 61 passengers. Testing for more samples of the virus is still ongoing, so there is a risk that the number of cases of infection with the Omiljun strain will increase.

To slow the spread of the Olmikron strain, the Dutch National Institute of Public Health and Environment is calling on all passengers from South Africa, Botswana, Malawi, Lesotho, Eswatini, Namibia, Mozambique and Zimbabwe to be tested for COVID-19 in the latest week.