On the last day, no new infection with coronavirus inside the country was confirmed, but two new infections were detected at the border. One of the visitors obtained a positive result after the test at the airport, and the other one on the second test after a 5-day quarantine. One person was found to have antibodies.
Currently, 17 people are in isolation due to Covid-19 and only one is hospitalized. 194 people are quarantined. 1126 is in screening quarantine. This number increased significantly as it was 886 yesterday.
People outside of quarantine who have been diagnosed with the virus in recent days have an infectious “British” variant of the virus. The common name for this variety comes from the fact that it was first diagnosed in the UK and is believed to be more contagious than other known varieties.
The infection rate in the last two weeks in Iceland per 100,000 inhabitants is 1.6 in the country and 3.5 in the border area.
Yesterday, 800 people in the country and 456 from the border area were tested for coronavirus. There are 13 people in isolation and 179 in quarantine in the metropolitan district. On the southern peninsula, two people from Covid and five quarantined. In the south of the country, two are infected and five are quarantined. Only two quarantined people in the north, one in the western fjords, and three in the west.
One of the infections is in the 13-17 age group, 5 infections in the 18-29 age group. 7 people in isolation are in the 30-39 age group and one is in the 40-49 age group. Then one person at the age of 60, 70, 80.
Source: Yle
