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Iceland is Europe’s Only Country Classified as Green

The test positivity rate for Covid-19 in Iceland is below 4 percent. Around 60 percent of the country’s 306.000 residents live in or around Iceland’s capital, Reykjavik.

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Iceland is the only country in Europe with a green status when in comes to Covid-19.

Trine Jonassen Trine Jonassen

Published 1 February 2021 - 09:34 Modified 2 January 2023 - 11:27

Iceland is the only country in Europe classified as green, along with the Greek islands, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) reports.

The 14-day incidence per 100,000 inhabitants stands at 25.77, according to the ECDC, and the test positivity rate is below 4 percent. On covid.is, data are updated daily. There, the figures for Iceland are even more promising, as the 14-day incidence per 100,000 inhabitants stands at 13.9.

At present, 17 people are hospitalized in Iceland due to Covid-19, none of them in intensive care. No new domestic cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Iceland yesterday. One active case was confirmed during border screening, and two people tested at the border await results of antibody tests.