"Dutch authorities confirm 14 omicron-positive passengers from South Africa were fully vaccinated"

"Health authorities in the Netherlands said most of the 62 travelers from South Africa who tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) were fully vaccinated. These include 14 passengers who were found to have contracted the new B11529 omicron strain.

More than 600 passengers were able to board two flights by Dutch air carrier KLM from Johannesburg and Cape Town on Nov. 26. These passengers showed either proof of vaccination or a recent negative COVID-19 test result as per current health protocols. However, the airline did not keep track of how individual passengers had met their pre-flight heal requirements.

A spokesman for the Kennemerland region’s health authority said on Dec. 2 that 'around 90 percent' of the COVID-positive were fully vaccinated. The Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, where the two KLM flights landed, is located at the coastal Kennemerland region in the country’s northwest.

Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) confirmed on the same day that all 14 passengers infected with the omicron strain are part of the 90 percent fully vaccinated group."