Dutch arrest coronavirus couple on plane trying to flee to Spain

A couple who had been put into quarantine after testing positive for coronavirus at Schiphol have been picked up at the airport again after trying to leave the country.

The couple, a Spanish man and Portuguese woman according to Dutch media, arrived in the Netherlands on Friday on one of two flights from South Africa. Everyone on the flights was tested for coronavirus and 61 out of 624 people on board were positive. The people with confirmed coronavirus and their partners were taken to the hotel near the airport where they were placed in quarantine.

But the couple managed to make their way from the airport back to Schiphol, where border police found them on board a plane which was about to leave for Spain.

[link to www.dutchnews.nl (secure)]