THE HAGUE: Dutch army police arrested a husband and spouse Sunday who had left a lodge the place they had been being quarantined after testing constructive for COVID-19 and boarded a airplane.
Native media reported that the couple had been making an attempt to fly residence to Spain.
A spokeswoman for the native safety authority that covers Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport stated Monday that an investigation was underway into whether or not the couple had dedicated against the law and must be prosecuted.
“Quarantine shouldn’t be compulsory, however we assume folks will act responsibly,” spokeswoman Petra Faber stated. “However there was a pair that wished to go residence and so they tried to fly residence. The Royal Marechaussee took them off the airplane and handed them again to the native well being authority.”
When authorities heard the couple had left the lodge, the pinnacle of the native safety authority, Marianne Schuurmans, rapidly signed an isolation order that empowered the Marechaussee police pressure to detain the couple.
“These folks they’re now in enforced isolation now not in our municipality however in a hospital elsewhere within the Netherlands,” Faber stated.
Authorities, citing privateness guidelines, declined to provide extra element in regards to the couple or whether or not they had examined constructive for the brand new omicron variant of the coronavirus.
A complete of 624 folks arrived at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport on Friday on two flights from South Africa. Checks confirmed that 61 of them had COVID-19 and sequencing of samples has thus far proven that a minimum of 13 of them have the brand new variant.
Schuurmans informed Dutch broadcaster WNL “it’s incomprehensible that individuals who had examined constructive would do that.”
