In Þistilfjörður, Northeast Iceland, an unusual sight awaited residents, following the severe weather that hit the area last weekend. Read more
Some restrictions, enacted to contain the spread of COVID-19 in Iceland, will be eased tomorrow, Friday.
As of midnight, Friday, Norway will list Iceland as ‘red’ on its coronavirus map.
Icelandair Group has reached an agreement with all its creditors, in addition to reaching a final settlement with Boeing regarding the impact of the aircraft manufacturer’s grounding of its 737 MAX aircraft last year.
There is no reason to tighten restrictions domestically in Iceland at this point.
The highest temperature recorded in Iceland this summer registered at Egilsstaðir Airport, East Iceland, yesterday.
For the first time since July 24, no new domestic case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Iceland yesterday.
On Saturday, a photographer on Reynisfjara beach, South Iceland, made a narrow escape from a huge wave that hit the spot where he was standing.
Heavy rain in recent days has caused rivers and creeks in South and West Iceland to swell.
Two celebrities in Vestmannaeyjar islands moved into their new 32,000-square-meter (344,000-sq-ft) home on Friday.
Saturday night, police officers visited 24 bars and restaurants in Reykjavík and vicinity to make sure that rules regarding disease prevention and restrictions on public gatherings were being followed.
There is ongoing debate in Iceland regarding how to respond to the second wave of COVID-19.
Among the most popular places to visit in East Iceland this summer is Stuðlagil ravine in Jökuldalur valley.
“The whole summer has felt like a continuous journey.”
At a press conference yesterday, Chief Epidemiologist Þórólfur Guðnason revealed that deCode Genetics has offered to assist Landspítali National University Hospital with border testing of passengers for the coronavirus by analyzing part of the samples collected.
During the month of July, Icelandair transported roughly 73,000 passengers, compared with only 18,494 in June.
Seventeen new domestic cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Iceland yesterday, in addition to three active cases at the border.
It was a close call yesterday morning when rescue workers came to the aid of a driver whose vehicle had become stuck in the middle of the river Kaldaklofskvísl.
A collaboration agreement, one of the largest business contracts ever made with an Icelandic company, has been signed between the Icelandic biopharmaceutical company Alvotech and Teva Pharmaceuticals.
Four new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Iceland yesterday.
Icelandic authorities are looking for ways to react to the increasing number of tourists visiting the country.
Compared to this spring, when the COVID-19 pandemic reached a peak in Iceland, people who these days test positive for the coronavirus do more frequently have no or mild symptoms of the disease.
Mývatn Nature Baths, North Iceland, has recently only been able to receive a quarter of the people interested in coming there.
More than 2,000 people a day have been tested for the coronavirus at Icelandic borders for the past two days.
Photographer Jón Ragnar Jónsson, a.k.a. Jon from Iceland, has been traveling Iceland since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Interest in outdoor activities, such as camping and hiking, has been highly contagious among Icelanders this summer - no doubt to the benefit of their health.
A newly released BBC video on geothermal swimming pools in Iceland brings attention to the fact that again and again, Icelanders are rated among the happiest nations in the world.
The Icelandic biotechnology company ORF Genetics has been awarded a EUR 2.5 million grant from the Grant Management Services of the European Commission.
Among new requirements taking effect in Iceland today, aimed at containing the spread of COVID-19, is the use of face masks when using public transportation.
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases is still rising in Iceland.
Today, tighter restrictions on public gatherings in Iceland will be announced by Minister of Health Svandís Svavarsdóttir.
Sequence analysis of samples from individuals infected with COVID-19 in Iceland has revealed one more case that includes a variant of the SARS-CoV-2, similar to the one already found in three unrelated groups of people.
Hertar aðgerðir innanlands og á landamærum vegna COVID-19 taka gildi á hádegi á morgun, föstudaginn 31. júlí, og munu standa yfir í tvær vikur, út 13. ágúst nk. Ákvörðunin er í samræmi við tillögur sóttvarnalæknis sem heilbrigðisráðherra hefur samþykkt.
More than 20 witnesses have been questioned with regard to the June 25 Reykjavík house fire at Bræðraborgarstígur 1, in which three people lost their lives, mbl.is reports.
Kári Stefánsson, CEO of deCode Genetics, expects restrictions on public gatherings to be tightened in Iceland, due to a cluster of infections that has developed in recent days.
Trying to solve the riddle of how new variants of SARS-CoV-2 (the coronavirus that causes COVID-19) were carried to Iceland involves a thorough investigation.
