Dutch military police said on Sunday they had arrested a married couple who left a hotel where they were in quarantine after testing positive for Covid-19, and were attempting to flee the country.
They were arrested “in an airplane that was about to depart,” the police known as the Marechausse said in a statement.
It was unclear whether they had tested positive for the new omicron coronavirus variant.
Amsterdam newspaper Het Parool reported that the couple, a Spanish man and Portuguese woman, were trying to fly to Spain.
Dozens of passengers who tested positive for Covid-19 after arriving on two flights from South Africa on Friday are being kept in quarantine at a hotel near Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport.
The Marechausse statement said the pair, whose names and nationalities were not released, had been turned over to health authorities.