Iceland Halts U.K. Covid Variant at the Border
Iceland has so far managed to contain a highly contagious British variant of the coronavirus that’s threatening to wash across Europe with systematic border testing, preemptive quarantines for visitors and the full sequencing of Covid-19 cases detected in the country.
“So far we have been able to keep the British variant out,” Chief Epidemiologist Thorolfur Gudnason said in an interview in Reykjavik. “We have diagnosed more than 40 individuals at our borders but have been able to prevent it from spreading further within the country.”
The British mutation of the coronavirus has contributed to a new lockdown in the U.K. and has now been found in several European countries.
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