The past summer months have not been what they should have been in terms of travel. Normally these months are the busiest months of the year at airports. Yet many people are already traveling by plane, both for holidays and for work. The increase in the number of travelers also causes an increase in the number of infected corona passengers on board aircraft. Our government is adjusting travel advice from code yellow to code orange for more and more countries, due to the increase in the number of corona infections worldwide. This week, parts of France and all of Spain were changed from code yellow to code orange. The number of passengers arriving at Eindhoven Airport by plane and infected with the corona virus has increased again. In the past 3 weeks, no less than 59 flights with 80 passengers who were infected with the corona virus have landed at Eindhoven Airport.

At the beginning of June until 3 weeks ago, only 26 infected persons arrived at Eindhoven Airport. It now comes to a total of 106 infected persons spread over 80 flights that arrived at Eindhoven Airport by plane, according to Nu.nl. The infections came to light when these passengers had themselves tested for the corona virus and told the GGD that they had traveled by plane. The GGD then immediately started a contact and source investigation to find out who these people had contact with within a radius of one and a half meters. It is therefore only possible that the number of infected passengers who arrived at Eindhoven Airport is higher than the numbers that are now known, not everyone is tested for corona. We are now increasingly wondering whether traveling by plane is really as corona-proof as people want to make it seem?

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