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A total of 61 people who arrived in the Netherlands on two flights from South Africa on Friday tested positive for the coronavirus and were in isolation on Saturday as the world anxiously sought to contain a new coronavirus variant.
Further tests are now underway on the travellers who arrived at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport to establish if any of them have the new variant, named omicron, that was first discovered in southern Africa.
The variant’s apparent swift spread among young people in South Africa has alarmed health professionals. Research is underway to determine whether the mutations found in omicron make it more
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