The infected were quarantined and their contacts were traced. In order to provide emergency medical care, a system was created in which infected people were called daily by nurses and doctors.
- First and foremost we gave standardized advice on symptom treatment and then we offered to visit an outpatient clinic for assessment, says Ragnar Freyr Ingvarsson, a doctor at the University Hospital in Reykjavik.
He estimates that this method prevents admissions by 70 percent.
A total of more than 1,800 people have been found coronas infected in Iceland and almost all have recovered. Only 10 people have died.