Cypriots who arrived from South Africa on Saturday afternoon (27/11) due to the new "Omicron" mutation were transferred to a quarantine hotel.
Dr. Panagiotis Georgiou, who is one of the passengers, spoke on the front page about the difficulties they faced until they finally arrived in Cyprus. Specifically, he said that they left South Africa on Friday, went to Dubai and finally arrived in Cyprus, without anyone informing them about the situation or whether they should take specific measures.
He explains that they sat with their passengers for three hours in the plane and they finally got the PCR and left. "Only three men said you come from here, you have to quarantine because you come from Africa and it is the Omicron mutation found in Africa. "But we have houses and we have to go home."
He pointed out that when he was in Africa he had heard about the mutation but there was no name then and only 23 cases had been recorded there. "The Ministry must do it practically (this measure). If we were leaving the airport and a relative was taking us home, we would only see one person. When we got out of here to go to the hotel we saw ten people. "If we had the coronavirus, we would have transmitted it to ten people."
In fact, he says that when they were tested, the people there did not wear different gloves and did the tests together with the others. He wondered how safe the taxi driver who took them to the quarantine hotel was. Also, after 27 hours they got the test result.