Iceland COVID-19 Cases - 2,161 cases, 10 deaths?

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Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/i...fight-n1170166

Iceland employs detective work, testing and quarantine in coronavirus fight
"We are using science and the best evidence there is," Iceland’s health director, Dr. Alma Moeller, says.

March 27, 2020, 9:41 AM EDT
By Willem Marx and Mac William Bishop

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Gestur Palmason has spent the past few weeks running down leads and profiling suspects, but those whom the veteran police detective is chasing aren’t criminals, they are coronavirus carriers.

The 40-year-old with a shaved head is part of a team of “contact tracers” operating at Iceland’s National Crisis Coordination Center, the high-pressure heart of this small country’s singular strategy to combat COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.

“Every second somebody is getting infected, so obviously we want as few people infected as we possibly can,” he told NBC News. “As quickly as we can, we have to reach everyone that might have been in contact with someone who’s positive, and try to stop them before they get in contact with more people.”...

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Fear of Iceland Statement: Half of our Coronavirus Cases Show No Symptoms
By Daniel Kucher -
March 27, 2020

Iceland’s Ministry of Health announced that half of the people who tested positive for the corona virus test did not show the virus symptoms as a result of their corona virus test study. This statement is a harbinger that many infected people unknowingly make others sick.

Most of the countries struggling with the coronavirus outbreak cannot test everyone because there are not enough tests. However, Iceland has managed to apply a coronavirus test to a significant part of its population.

According to the statement made by the Ministry of Health of Iceland, 12,615 coronavirus tests were performed in the country with 364,000 inhabitants until 25 March. The coronavirus tests of 802 people tested were positive. Although the number of tests seems low at first, it is not low compared to the population of the country. Because Iceland has tested 3.4% of the entire population. If the total number of people testing tests we wanted to apply the same rate in Turkey would find a population of 2 million 822 thousand...

Read more: https://www.somagnews.com/fear-icela...w-no-symptoms/

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https://www.icelandreview.com/news/s...ne-violations/

Violations of Iceland’s current quarantine and gathering ban regulations will now be punishable with fines of ISK 50,000 – 500,000 [€323 – 3,239; $359 – 3,585]. The new penalties were announced on Friday in an order issued by the Director of Public Prosecutions. The fines will be levied throughout Iceland “for violations of the Minister of Health’s rules related to the gathering ban, the closure of public meeting places and activities, as well as on the isolation of those infected [with COVID-19] and quarantine.”
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‘We’re just going to have to have bad hair for the next few weeks’

While the regulations on large gatherings have mostly been observed, however, police say not everyone is taking the regulations seriously enough. “There are way too many reports about people in quarantine who are going out to the shops,” remarked V??ir Reynisson, the Manager of the Police Commissioner’s Civil Protection and Emergency Management Division, during a press conference on Friday. Proper distancing protocols are not always being followed in shops, either, he continued, and they have indication that individuals in certain service professions, such as hairdressers, have continued to cut hair from their homes.

“Come on—we haven’t put this ban in place for no reason,” V??ir sighed. “We’re just going to have to have bad hair for the next few weeks. We just have to live with it.”

https://grapevine.is/news/2020/03/27...-for-his-life/

The husband of the 71-year-old Icelandic woman with asthma who died from COVID-19 on Monday March 23rd—the first Icelander to do so—is seriously ill, Stundin reports. The 75-year-old man has been put on a respirator in Landsp?tali hospital. He has had no other health complications so far.
Sincere and strong words


Their son posted on Facebook on Tuesday, saying goodbye to his mother, and imploring people to learn from his experience. “It’s time for this nation and its citizens to take this seriously and stop acting like idiots,” he wrote.

President Gu?ni Th. J?hannesson sent a sincere greeting to the family. In addition, he urged people to exercise caution, and listen to the experts. “We are dealing with a threat to people’s lives and health. The most important thing is to protect those who are the weakest,” he said. “We must follow all the recommendations and instructions in every way. And we trust in our accomplished staff in the health care system. They all deserve many thanks for their work on these difficult days.”

Chief of Police V??ir Reynisson had strong words for those who disregarded public safety instructions. “It’s really important, what we are focusing on, that people obey this. We are not kidding. These numbers are really serious. People must take this seriously.”

https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2...63_i_heildina/

Currently, there are 963 crown viruses detected in Iceland, increasing by 73 yesterday. This is stated in new figures published on the web covid.is now at 13 today.
864 are in isolation and 9,908 in quarantine. Then 3,991 completed quarantine and 14,635 samples were taken in total.
According to the figures that appear today and figures from yesterday, 66 were diagnosed by the University of Biological and Virology Department and three from the Icelandic Genetic Analysis. In addition, figures were also updated, explaining that the number of infections recorded yesterday is not 73.

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https://www.icelandreview.com/category/society/

https://www.icelandreview.com/societ...ffected-farms/

Almost a hundred people have signed up to provide relief assistance on farms across the country, V?sir reports. The initiative, launched by the Farmers Association of Iceland (B?), will send temporary workers to help farmers who have fallen ill with COVID-19 and are unable to maintain their farms. At time of writing, six farmers in the Vestur-H?nvatnss?sla district in Northwest Iceland have contracted the virus.

“Almost a hundred people are on our list,” remarked Gu?bj?rg J?nsd?ttir, the B? project manager. “I’m really touched at how the country is thinking about farmers and is ready to help. There are people who have experience and knowledge and have an education in agriculture and then also those who have lost their jobs in the tourism sector and then working consultants—all really decent folk from all over the country.”

At this time, the infected farmers in Northwest Iceland have been able to continue maintaining their farms with the help of family members or workers from nearby farms. It’s not yet known what other farms have been affected by COVID-19, but by having a list of volunteers in place, B? is hoping to circumvent further disruptions in the agricultural sector as the virus continues to spread.

https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2...d_her_a_landi/

There have been confirmed 1,020 infections due to the crown virus in Iceland, but 57 infections were added from 13 o'clock yesterday. This is stated on the website covid.is, where there are numbers of infections and other information about the virus every day.
54 infections were diagnosed by Landsp?tali's bacterial and viral sciences, and two at the Icelandic genetic analysis. A total of 359 samples were taken yesterday by the bacterial and viral sciences compared to the Icelandic Genetic Analysis 490. The proportion of infected infections therefore represented 15% of the total number of specimens at the bacterial and viral sciences department and 0.4% at the Icelandic genetic analysis.

A total of 521 men and 499 women have now been infected. The origin of 659 infections is now domestic, the origin of 284 infections abroad and the origin of 77 infections is unknown.
Most infections have been diagnosed in the capital area, 773. In addition, 105 infections have been diagnosed in the South, 47 in the Su?urnes and 22 both in the North East and West. Permanent infection is 25.
A total of 15,484 samples have been taken.

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https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2...a_thvi_i_gaer/

The number of confirmed infections due to the crown virus is now 1,086 according to figures published on covid.is today. The number of infected persons has increased by 66 yesterday, but its numbers exceed the number yesterday.
According to figures on the site, 54 infections were reported yesterday at the Land and Hospital's Biology and Virology Department and two at the Icelandic Genetic Analysis. The number of infections recorded in the previous days increased by 10.

https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2..._i_ondunarvel/

There are thirty people in the Landspitali who have been diagnosed with the crown virus. Ten are in intensive care, seven of which are in a respirator. Thorolfur Gudnason said this at a press conference at a press conference.
The epidemic is in slow linear growth and not in exponential growth.
A number of cases are followed by best forecasts. In contrast, the number of intensive care units follows the worst forecasts.
A total of 160 individuals have recovered from the virus.
1,500 to 1,600 are expected to be diagnosed with the virus in Iceland in early April. Thorolf said he expected the peak to be reached in the epidemic of the first half of April and said it was important to continue the measures underway.
Women are one-third of those lying on the National Hospital with the crown virus. In addition to the 30 who are in the hospital with the virus, six are inside due to suspicion of having the virus, according to the director of the National Hospital.
At Covid-19's outpatient department at the National Hospital, there are 936 supervised, 72 of whom are children. 157 people have improved. In total, 38 hospital staff are in isolation. About one hundred employees are in quarantine.
Six lie on Landakot with Covid-19. It is not known that a patient has infected an employee.

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https://www.ruv.is/frett/2020/03/31/...1-march-update

There are now 1,135 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Iceland, 8,879 people in home quarantine, 35 in hospital (including 11 in intensive care), and 198 are registered as having made a full recovery. Alþingi has voted to approve the government’s economic stimulus plan to save businesses and jobs during the crisis, while unemployment in Reykjanesb?r has already hit 14 percent.

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https://www.ruv.is/english

1,319 COVID-19 cases in Iceland: 02 April update
There are now 1,319 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Iceland, 1,047 people in home quarantine, 41 in hospital (including 12 in intensive care), and 270 are registered as having made a full recovery.
Two more deaths were recorded yesterday, bringing the country's total up to four. The Icelandic COVID-19 tracking app is now available in Apple’s App Store, while harsher assembly ban rules are extended to the northern Westfjords region over a spate of new cases.

• A man and a woman, both in their 70s, died at Landsp?tali university hospital yesterday. They are the third and fourth COVID-19 deaths in Iceland.

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https://www.ruv.is/frett/2020/04/03/...3-april-update

There are now 1,364 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Iceland, 6,300 people in home quarantine, 45 in hospital (including 12 in intensive care), and 336 are registered as having made a full recovery. The Icelandic virus tracing app is now available for Android as well as iPhone, and Reykjav?k Arts Festival will go ahead (sort of) as planned.

• As reported yesterday, there have now been four deaths from the COVID-19 coronavirus in Iceland, and it has now been confirmed that one of the two people who died on Wednesday this week was the husband of the woman who died with the virus a week before. The couple, both in their seventies, had lived in Hverager?i, southwest Iceland, most of their lives and leave a large family behind. The mayor says her small town has received a major blow as most people there knew and liked the couple.

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https://www.ruv.is/frett/2020/04/04/...-i-fyrsta-sinn

A total of 53 crown viruses have been detected in this country in the past 24 hours, which is a slight increase from the previous 24 days when 45 samples proved positive. This is stated in figures published on the web covid.is at. 13. Active infections have decreased since yesterday, but this is the first time since the epidemic began.

Of the samples that proved positive in the last 24 hours, 33 samples were found at the Landsp?tali Department of Virology and 20 at the Icelandic Genetic Analysis. Never have so many samples been found positive in screening Icelandic genetic analysis in one day.
47% of those diagnosed with the last 24 hours were quarantined when they were diagnosed.
A total of 1,417 people have now been identified as positive in this country. Of these, 396 have recovered and therefore active infection is now 1,021. There is a reduction in active infections since yesterday, when they were 1,046. This is the first time that the number of active infections has decreased since the epidemic began.

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https://www.covid.is/tolulegar-upplysingar

1486 confirmed infection Number in isolation 1054 in isolation In the hospital 38 in the hospital improved 428 achieved recovery Number in quarantine 5511 in quarantine Complete quarantine 11657 complete quarantine Number of samples 25394 Showing

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http://polarconnection.org/coronavir...polar-regions/

Iceland: 1,562 confirmed cases (1,126 in Greater Reykjavik, 72 in Su?urnes Peninsula, 165 in South Iceland, 6 in East Iceland, 42 in Northeast Iceland, 35 in Northwest Iceland, 42 in the West Fjords, 29 is West Iceland, and 45 others), 6 deaths (one being an Australian tourist, who was diagnosed with COVID-19 but whose death is not believed to be the result of the virus.) As of 6 April, 460 have recovered, 1,096 are in isolation, 5,263 are in quarantine, 12,467 have completed quarantine, and 27,467 samples have been tested so far.

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CEO of deCODE genetics, the Reykjavik-based company that's been at the forefront of Iceland's testing Kari Stefansson reacts to Iceland coronavirus testing suggests 50% of cases have no symptoms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRjrt-B64yY

7,7 % of population tested so far. 27.880 tests. 1.562 confirmed COVID-19 cases

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Source: https://www.frettabladid.is/frettir/...oppnum-se-nad/

The next few days determine if the top is reached
It will be determined in the coming days whether the peak of the coronary virus epidemic is reached in this country. This was said by ??r?fur Gu?nason, Chief Epidemiologist, at today's public information meeting today.
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Thorolfur Gudnason, the epidemic physician, says that the epidemic's development will take place in the coming days. Newspaper / Eagle
Hj?rvar ?lafsson
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Kl. 14:19


Thorolfur Gudnason, the epidemiologist, says it is gratifying to see that the infection with the coronary virus has decreased today since yesterday. However, it cannot be read from the conclusion that the peak of the epidemic has been reached.

"You wonder if this is a significant reduction, but I think it's too early to say that. The next few days will determine whether or not we have reached the top. It would be as good as it was, "Thorolf said at today's public defense meeting.
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A total of 99 who recovered from COVID-19 yesterday

A total of 24 new cases of the coronary virus were identified, causing the disease COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, with an estimated 1,586 infections. Fewer infections have not been detected in a single day since March 22 when 22 infections were detected.

"About 5 percent of the population is quarantined or has been quarantined, which is a pretty incredible proportion. Work is currently underway on the implementation of a ban on assembly after the current ban ends on May 4 and the reception of tourists to the country over the next few weeks. We will announce the next steps after Easter, "says the Chief Epidemiologist.

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https://www.frettabladid.is/frettir/...d-ykkur-heima/


Seventh death from COVID-19 in Iceland: "Stay home"



Seven have died of COVID-19 in this country. This morning a woman died of nineties due to the virus. For a while the woman seemed to be on the road to recovery. The woman then deteriorated considerably.

https://www.frettabladid.is/frettir/...jolgadi-um-32/

The number of infections increased by 32



A total of 32 were detected with the COVID-19 crown virus in this country in the past 24 hours, and thus the infection has become 1,648. More recovered in the last 24 hours than were infected but 55 people recovered from the virus. This was stated at today's Civil Protection meeting.

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Source: https://www.frettabladid.is/frettir/...ta-solarhring/

14 infections last day
Active infections are steadily decreasing in this country. Relatively few samples were taken yesterday, or 510. Even many have recovered and are infected by COVID-19.
Einar Thor Sigurdsson
Saturday, April 11, 2020
Kl. 13:09

Fourteen COVID-19 infections were detected in Iceland in the last 24 hours and therefore totaled 1,689. This can be read from new figures that appeared on the Covid.is website now at 13 o'clock. Bear in mind that very few samples were taken yesterday compared to other days.
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Eighth death due to COVID-19 in this country

A total of 510 samples were taken yesterday; 268 at the Department of Biological and Viral Sciences and 242 at the Icelandic Genetic Analysis. The last few days before have generally taken well over a thousand samples each day.

It is noteworthy that as many people have now recovered and are in isolation with COVID-19, or 841 in each group. This is the fifth consecutive day that the number of active infections is decreasing, but most were on April 5, or 1,096.

40 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 and 11 in intensive care.