Iceland lowers price of on-arrival COVID-19 testing
Iceland will begin charging for on-arrival COVID-19 testing on July 1, but is lowering the price from the previously announced
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Iceland offers COVID-19 testing to international travellers starting June 15
Iceland began offering COVID-19 testing to international travellers on Monday, in hopes that giving tourists a way to avoid two-week
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Iceland and Greenland implement COVID-19 testing for travellers
Iceland and neighbouring Greenland have slowly been reopening their economies for several weeks, and this month have implemented COVID-19 testing
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COVID-19 Roundup: Sweden discusses virus’ impact on the military; Norway’s COVID reproduction rate falls to 0.61
COVID-19 and its effect on the military dominated discussions at the Northern Group meeting of defence ministers this week, said
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Iceland talks COVID-19 with Canada, Greenland foreign ministers
Iceland’s Ministery of Foriegn Affairs said it has spoken with foreign ministers in other North American Arctic regions this month
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COVID-19 Roundup: New case in Russia’s Nenets region ; Alaska’s businesses reopen at 100 per cent capacity
Nenets Autonomous Okrug: This region of northern Russia recorded an additional case of COVID-19 on Wednesday bringing total confirmed cases
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New guideline launched for Arctic-specific risk assessment in shipping
A picture of the Arctic Ocean at the 85th parallel north between the Russian archipelago of Franz Josef Land and
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COVID-19 roundup: Iceland’s borders to open mid-June; senior federal medical officer to visit Alaska
Restrictions on international business travellers and tourists arriving in Iceland are expected to be lifted in mid-June, with the government
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COVID-19 roundup: business support extended in Iceland as well as states of emergency in NWT
With mass layoffs and mass insolvencies across Iceland amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the government has announced extended part-time unemployment benefits
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Iceland, Estonia talk Arctic at Tallinn meeting
The foreign ministers of Iceland and Estonia met on Wednesday to talk everything from Nordic-Baltic relations to Arctic cooperation. “We
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Iceland most gender-equal country says World Economic Forum 2020 report, Canada comes in 19th
Iceland has been named the world’s most gender-equal country by the World Economic Forum. It’s the 11th year in a
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Iceland getting back to normal after being savaged by freak winter storm
Iceland is getting back to normal after being savaged by a freak winter storm last week, with the Icelandic Red
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Arctic Council creates new expert group on nuclear emergencies
Two fatal accidents during the summer of 2019 was a wake-up call for radiation emergency authorities monitoring northern waters. On
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Large swaths of Iceland still without power Wednesday after winter megastorm
Much of northern and eastern Iceland remained without power Wednesday afternoon after a winter storm raged across the country this
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Iceland to restrict heavy fuel oil use in territorial waters
Iceland’s Ministry for the Environment and Natural Resources will restrict heavy fuel oil use in the country’s territorial and internal waters
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