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Iceland reopens tourism – carefully

Iceland is beginning to open up for tourism after the severe effects of Covid-19 this spring. The virus meant most of the tourism industry had no customers and many companies had to close down. Today, most have reopened and try to attract domestic travellers while waiting for foreign tourists to return to Iceland.
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High infection rate, efficient stop to virus

Iceland has 1,807 cases of Covid-19. That is a high number per capita – 529 infections per 100,000 people. In Sweden there are 455 infections per 100,000. But only 10 people have died from Coronavirus in Iceland, or 2.9 per 100,000. In Sweden 4,717 people have died, which is 47 per 100,000. Source: vg.no on 10 June.

The picture above was taken before the Corona pandemic, in the Námaskarð geothermal area in Northern Iceland.

 

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