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QUARANTINE HOTEL ESCAPEES ARRESTED IN NETHERLANDS

A couple was arrested for violating coronavirus quarantine, in which they had been placed after at least one of them tested positive for the coronavirus on arrival from South Africa, Dutch police said, according to local news reports. The incident comes as countries in Europe go on high alert over the appearance of the omicron variant of the coronavirus in at least 11 European countries. The married couple, a Portuguese woman and a Spanish man, were arrested Sunday evening at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, moments before their flight was scheduled to depart for Spain. The couple has since been placed in isolation in a hospital, according to Het Parool, a Dutch newspaper. The man and the woman, whose names were not released, had arrived to the Netherlands on a flight from South Africa, and at least one of them tested positive for the coronavirus after landing at Schiphol airport. The couple was arrested on the plane “almost silently and without violence,” a Marechaussee spokesman said.

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