Prognosis
Iceland Records No New Cases of Coronavirus for the First Time
People walk down Laugavegur street in downtown Reykjavik.
Photographer: Ernir Eyjolfsson/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
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Iceland has reached a landmark in its fight against Covid-19, with no new confirmed cases reported on Friday, the first time this has happened since the start of the global pandemic.
“Nobody was diagnosed with Covid-19 in the last 24 hours,” Chief Epidemiologist Thorolfur Gudnason said at a daily briefing in Reykjavik. But “we need to be on our toes in the next months to prevent a new or larger epidemic.”