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Due to a new variant of the coronavirus, the entry of air passengers from Great Britain was stopped on Sunday evening at several German airports.
The passengers who last landed in Germany on Sunday were initially not allowed to leave the airports.
As "Bild" reports, there are at least ten people among them who have tested positive for the corona virus.
As a result, the infected were on board various machines that landed in Berlin, Stuttgart, Hanover and Dortmund on Sunday.
The Hanover region, however, confirmed one case.
62 passengers from London had to spend the night at the airport - an infection had been detected in one passenger, the Hanover region announced on Monday.
It is currently unclear whether he has been infected with the newly mutated corona virus.
The Berlin Charité virologist Christian Drosten will also deal with the case, said Marlene Graf, deputy head of central public health in the Hanover region.
According to regional president Hauke Jagau, the affected passenger in Hanover and the accompanying persons were brought to their destination in a quarantine transport.
Ten days of quarantine in any case
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According to the authorities, the other passengers received a negative test result, but they would now also have to be quarantined for ten days at their respective destination.
After five days, however, they would have the opportunity to be tested - if the test result was negative again, the quarantine could be ended prematurely.
A woman who was a passenger from Heathrow flew back to London.
Regardless of this, seven people tested positive for the corona virus at Hamburg Airport.
“Three more flights from Great Britain arrived in Hamburg on Sunday.
In these three there were a total of seven people who tested positive in the rapid tests, "said a spokeswoman for the federal police in Hamburg on Monday.
She couldn't say whether the virus was the possibly more contagious variant from Great Britain.
Because of the mutation of the corona virus that occurred in Great Britain, there has been a landing ban for flights from there since midnight at German airports and in other European countries.
The passengers were isolated at the airports: They had to sleep on camp beds and have to undergo corona tests.
As a spokesman for the federal police said, in the morning at Frankfurt Airport, for example, 87 people were waiting in the transit area to be tested, and around 70 other people who had already been tested were waiting for their results.
From Monday until December 31st, planes coming from Great Britain are no longer allowed to land in Germany.
The Federal Ministry of Transport had decreed.
Pure cargo flights are excluded.