Iceland lifted all anti-COVID restrictions

Since Saturday, the country has canceled the mask regime, social distancing and the limit on the number of participants in meetings. Only one covid-19 patient has died in Iceland since the beginning of the year, 60% of the adult population were vaccinated

Since June 26, the Icelandic government has lifted all restrictions imposed in the country in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic. This was reported by the press service of the Icelandic Ministry of HEALTH.

“We are returning to the model of society in which we can live normally. We have been striving for this since we started restricting gatherings due to the pandemic over a year ago,” Health Minister Svandis Svavarsdottir said.

Since midnight on June 26, the mask regime and social distancing have been canceled in the country, as well as the restriction on freedom of assembly has been lifted. Starting July 1, those who enter Iceland and provide certificates of vaccination with drugs approved by the European regulator will be exempted from mandatory testing for COVID-19.

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Now 87% of the adult population in Iceland has received at least the first dose of the CORONAVIRUS vaccine, and at least 60% have received both components. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 6,637 people have fallen ill in the country, 30 of them have died. Currently, 12 Icelanders are in self-isolation due to coronavirus infection. Since the beginning of 2021, only one death has been identified.

At the same time, the authorities noted that they expect small pockets of the spread of infection in the future. “But we are confident that our contact tracing capabilities and the willingness of the population to comply with quarantine and isolation requirements will be sufficient to deal with any new outbreaks,” said Vidir Reinisson, HEAD of the civil protection department.

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The government added that most of the infections diagnosed this year are of the alpha variant of the coronavirus (the so-called British strain). According to the chief epidemiologist of Iceland, Torolfur Gudnason, quarantine measures made it possible to nullify the spread of the disease.

Since March, Reykjavik has allowed entry into the country to all foreigners vaccinated with vaccines that are approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Since the end of May, flights between Iceland and Russia have been resumed.

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