WASHINGTON: Iceland has provided a textbook example of how to get out ahead of a looming pandemic - per capita, it has tested more people for ...
WASHINGTON: Iceland has provided a textbook example of how to get out ahead of a looming pandemic - per capita, it has tested more people for COVID-19 than any other country on earth and it got started a month before the first case was even confirmed in the tiny Nordic island nation.
It found that as of late March, 13.3 per cent of more than 9,000 people who were screened tested positive. The first case of infection was confirmed on Feb 28.In a second testing programme that began Mar 13, deCODE Genetics screened the general population of people with no coronavirus symptoms or who had mild symptoms, such as those of the common cold, and were not in quarantine. Here, the proportion of positive cases was much lower - between 0.6 per cent and 0.8 per cent.
If the people who ended up being positive had not been tested, they probably would not have self-quarantined and would have gone on to infect others unknowingly.
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