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Third case of Monkeypox diagnosed in Iceland
According to the website of the Directorate of Health, the third case of Monkeypox has been diagnosed in Iceland, last Saturday, June 11th. The patient is a male, living in the Reykjavík metropolitan area. According to the announcement, the patient does not have serious symptoms and is quarantined in his own home. Just as is the case with the two...
Guðnason gives out advice: „The source is in certain places in Europe where sex is liberal“
„It is transmitted during sexual acts between people of all genders. It just so happens to mostly have been diagnosed in men recently, and the source is in certain places in Europe where sex is liberal,“ says Þórólfur Guðnason, Chief Epidemiologist for Iceland, regarding the Monkey Pox, during last night’s news on Channel 2. Two men have been diagnosed with...
The Coast Guard has poured concrete into the holes of oil tanker El Grillo
The Icelandic coastguard has now completed their work of stopping an oil spill from El Grillo in Seyðisfjörður. A fence will then be set up this summer, but the fence is intended to catch oil that could leak out as weather begins to warm. It was the crew of the patrol ship Freyja together with the divers of the Coast...
„A group of people are now planning to drag the child out of there against its will “
„A group of people are now standing outside a hospital ward at Landspítali, planning to drag the child out of there against its will with by means necessary. They are going to deliver the child to its father, whom it fears and has repeatedly refused any communication with. The Child Protective Services in Reykjavík, The District Commissioner of Greater Reykjavík...
„The countries youngest convict“: Parole revoked and still in custody – Suspect in a shooting
Hrannar Fossberg Viðarsson was today sentenced by the Court of Appeal to serve the rest of the sentence he received in the District Court in Reykjavík, in 2018. He received parole the year after. DV originally reported on this. Hrannar was a suspect in a shooting in Grafarholt, Reykjavík in the middle of the night, on Thursday February 10th of...
Sailors rescued to shore in Þingvallavatn – Expressed their gratitude by serving coffee to rescuers
Recently, the search and rescue team Ingunn and the rescue squad Tintron were called out in the middle of the day for a boat that had lost engine power in the middle of Þingvallavatn lake. Sunnlenska originally reported on this. Luckily, there was not much danger. As many people are aware of, Þingvallavatn lake can be quite unpredictable and circumstances...
An Icelandic app for victims of violence wins an award: „We are still on cloud nine“
„We would like to express our gratitude for the endless amount of beautiful messages; we are still on cloud nine, and it still has not quite yet sunk in that we actually won the award,“ says Inga Henriksen, one of the creators of Liljaapp, an app that received the Women Innovators Incubator award last night. The app is meant to...
Return of the Cocoa Puffs: „We think that the manufacturer did a very good job“
„This change enables us to deliver Cocoa Puffs back to Iceland, so the nation may once again enjoy this immensely popular cereal with less sugar and fat, and more protein.“ This is part of a newly released announcement from Nathan & Olsen, General Mills’ distributor in Iceland. The much-adored cereal Cocoa Puffs disappeared from Iceland’s shelfs in the beginning of...
Chief of Police denies racial profiling but says police must listen to the community they serve
„In this specific case, the police is never the one choosing the individual to interfere with,“ said Iceland’s Chief of Police at an open meeting in Parliament. The meeting was held to discuss police officer’s education on multiculturalism and prejudice. The main reason for it being held now was an incident that occurred last April, when a 16 year old...
President Jóhannesson sings: „Eurovision is a travelling circus with a huge tent“
The American television news show 60 Minutes recently published a segment on Iceland’s Eurovision craze. A crew and an anchor from this biggest news show in the world came to Iceland last March to observe „Söngvakeppnin“, the country’s preliminary competition before the main Eurovision Song Contest in Europe. „Eurovision is a travelling circus with a huge tent and you just...
Hiring at the office of Efling will cost at least 15 million – Meeting for union members tomorrow
The board of Efling has faced a lot of criticism since laying off all employees working in the union’s office. This decision, made by the chairman Sólveig Anna Jónsdóttir, has triggered some harsh responses from the public. People seem to either condemn the chairman’s decision or embrace it as part of Jónsdóttir’s fight for salary increase for the lowest paid....
Eyrún: „hate crime is almost exclusively committed against persons with a minority background“
Queer Iceland in an International Context is the name of a series of lectures by Eyrún Eyþórsdóttir, where she talks about LGBTQ+ people’s experience of hate crimes, also counting hate speech and discrimination due to sexual orientation and gender identity. In the lecture, Eyrún cites data from her study. She has a doctor’s degree in Anthropology from the University of...
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