Last Guest Has Checked Out
From one of the quarantine facilities. mbl.is/Eggert Jóhannesson
A milestone was reached Wednesday morning when the last guest of the Red Cross’ quarantine facilities in Iceland checked out, mbl.is reports. The coming days will be used for cleaning up at the two facilities which were the last ones to close, one of which is in Reykjavík, the other one in Akureyri, North Iceland.
At the end of February, all COVID-19 restrictions were lifted in Iceland, both domestically and at the border. It was thereby no longer obligatory to quarantine if you became infected with the virus.
According to the Red Cross, a total of about 15,000 individuals of various nationalities have checked in at the country’s quarantine facilities since they first opened two years ago. At the height of the pandemic, there were seven quarantine hotels in operation, employing about 80 people.
In May of last year, it looked like the pandemic was coming to an end, and for a few weeks, the facilities closed, only to have to reopen again when a new wave of the disease hit the country.
