Tag: COVID-19

  • Reykjavík’s main Shopping Street like a ghost town

    Reykjavík’s main Shopping Street like a ghost town

    Numerous buildings or spaces that used to house stores on Reykjavík’s main Shopping Street Laugavegur have been deserted, Iceland Monitor reports. As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, a lot of stores have closed, either temporarily or permanently. Iceland Monitor reports that when photographer Kristinn Magnússon walked down Laugavegur last week, from Hlemmur square to…

  • New rules on entry into Iceland come into effect on midnight tonight

    New rules on entry into Iceland come into effect on midnight tonight

    New rules on entry into Iceland come into effecto on midnight. The Directorate of Health published new quarantine instructions for visitors coming to Iceland last week. Starting on August 19, all arriving passengers will have to be tested for COVID-19 at the border, go into quarantine for 4-5 days and then get tested again, “regardless…

  • No cases of Coronavirus in Northern Iceland

    No cases of Coronavirus in Northern Iceland

    The number of confirmed cases of the COVID-19  coronavirus has risen to 11 in Iceland. So far, all the cases are in the Reykjavík area. The latest two cases were confirmed by Chief Epidemiologist Þórólfur Guðnason today. The two individuals diagnosed today arrived from Verona in Italy last Saturday, where they had been skiing. As…