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Dozens of travelers arriving from the United Kingdom found themselves stranded in German airports late Sunday Monday, following the decision to suspend flights to the United Kingdom due to the new strain of the emerging corona virus that was discovered on their soil, as reported the “Agence France-Presse”.
And at Hannover airport, in the north of the country, the new measure affected a group of 63 passengers returning from the United Kingdom who were not allowed to leave the airport compound, according to local police, and all had to submit to a new Corona virus test that was performed on site by medical personnel wearing protective clothing. Their results are expected on Monday. While waiting, the airport has designated a family in one of its buildings, where the passengers will spend the night.
“Our goal is to prevent the new strain of the virus from spreading in the region,” Andreas Krantz, an official with the local health authority, told the German news agency (DPA).
The situation was similar at Stuttgart Airport, but with a smaller group of passengers arriving from the UK and being transferred to a test center at the airport site, according to a spokesperson for the facility, and allowed to leave building if the results of the tests they were subjected to are negative, but they will also have to undergo a quarantine. Healthy later.
Source: French press agency
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