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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch health authorities were expected to announce on Sunday afternoon how many cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant have been found in the Netherlands, after 61 people who flew from South Africa tested positive for coronavirus. The Netherlands’ Institute for Health (RIVM) said on Saturday it believes that the new variant is present in at least some of the positive cases found among some 600 passengers who were tested on arrival from two flights from South Africa on Friday. A RIVM spokesperson said on Saturday it was “almost certain” it had identified cases of the new…