Tourist Couple Apprehended by Dutch Police After Sneaking Out of Quarantine Hotel

A married couple that had examined constructive for COVID-19 was apprehended by Dutch police this weekend after they managed to sneak out of the native quarantine resort. According to a local report from Dutch newspaper Het Parool, the pair have been arrested onboard simply moments earlier than their aircraft was set to move to Spain from Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport.

According to Het Parool’s report, the couple—a Spanish man and a Portuguese lady, each unnamed—had left the resort round 6 P.M. yesterday, after which the Marechaussee, aka the native army police, was alerted in regards to the escapees. Not lengthy after, the 2 have been arrested onboard their aircraft “almost silently and without violence,” a Marechaussee spokesperson advised the paper.

This information comes within the midst of increased alarm throughout the EU in regards to the Omicron coronavirus variant that has cropped up throughout The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, and different areas since its discovery final week. While it’s unclear whether or not this couple had come down with the new variant, it’s price noting that they have been among the many roughly 600 passengers that had landed in Amsterdam from South Africa, the place Omicron was first recognized. Among these a whole lot of passengers, 61 examined constructive for COVID-19, and 13 of them examined constructive for the Omicron variant.

At least one of many pair had examined constructive for coronavirus after touching down in Amsterdam, after which they have been put into isolation in an area quarantine resort together with different vacationers from South Africa.

Marianne Schuurmans, mayor of Haarlemmermeer the place the resort is situated, advised another local outlet that her division “really did not expect that people would flee.”

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“There is security at the hotel, but people stay there completely voluntarily,” she went on. “Security guards advised the couple not to leave, but there was no legal ground to hold them yet. As mayor and chairman of the Security Region, I still had to arrange that at the time.”

Apparently, by the point town had put collectively the association to detain quarantine escapees, the couple have been already on the aircraft, and about to take off. After native police pulled them off the aircraft, the 2 have been popped into an area hospital to implement the remainder of their quarantine. Hopefully, the incident will get different would-be quarantine-breakers to rethink earlier than they make an escape.