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. (Photo: Andreas Tille/Wikimedia Commons)
Iceland is the only country in Europe with a green status when in comes to Covid-19.
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.
