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Ischgl is a defined high-risk area according to Iceland's Directorate of Health

There has been a problem with the official information on Ischgl being removed from the list. Reviewing the history, this information has been taken down twice by persons not logged on as Wikipedia users.

Please observe that this is official information from Iceland's Directorate of Health: https://www.landlaeknir.is/um-embaettid/greinar/grein/item39194/Skilgreind-ahaettusvaedi---Defined-high-risk-areas A defined high-risk area in this instance is a location where residents of Iceland are being asked to avoid non-essential travel. Please observe that this is advice for residents of Iceland only; residents of Ischgl (or other parts of Austria) are not being quarentined on arrival to Iceland.

To repeat, do not remove Ischgl from the list until the Icelandic Directorate of Health does so first.

Thank you! --Sylgja (talk) 07:23, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Update: Information is no longer being deleted after an IP user added a note that local officials in Ischgl disputed whether Ischgl was the actual source of infection. This is fine: the list is not a comprehensive list of known high-risk areas for COVID-19 but rather a current list of defined risk areas from the Icelandic Directorate of Health, which will presumably be updated in the next few days. To repeat, this is a list applying to residents of Iceland only.

It looks like the problem is solved, thanks! --Sylgja (talk) 16:26, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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I've created WikiProject COVID-19 as a temporary or permanent WikiProject and invite editors to use this space for discussing ways to improve coverage of the ongoing 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. Please bring your ideas to the project/talk page. Stay safe, --Another Believer _(Talk) 17:42, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Reference

Reference 19 seems to have the author's name inverted: all other references follow standard Icelandic practice; this one is presented patronymic-first. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.26.65.42 (talk) 23:22, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed it, thanks for noticing! --Sylgja (talk) 07:58, 24 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This article in the news

The Icelandic public broadcaster RÚV published an article about the edit warring on this article about the inclusion of the ski resort Ischgl in Austria as a high-risk area after 5 March. --Bjarki (talk) 14:47, 26 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Fascinating! Thank you for the pointer. Keep on fighting the good fight & stay safe. 188.108.99.248 (talk) 16:50, 29 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

430 vs. 396

Landspítali and covid.is disagree on the number of recoveries, with the former giving the number as 430 but the latter as 396. Which should be used? 88.70.241.197 (talk) 21:10, 4 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

As I understand it, Covid.is updates its numbers every day at 13:00 but these are the numbers from midnight, so essentially the final numbers from the day before. Landspítali publishes numbers around 14:00 and they probably include events from the morning of the same day so their numbers are more recent. --Bjarki (talk) 09:44, 6 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Medical cases template

Could someone who's a bit more knowledgeable take a look at Template:2019–20 coronavirus pandemic data/Iceland medical cases? It seems to be one day ahead of where it should be; I just added today's numbers, which should be current as of 2020-04-08, but they're already for 2020-04-09 in the template. Either I'm not understanding the way the template is structured correctly, or it went out of sync, as it were, along the way; if so it would be nice if someone could fix it. 188.108.178.209 (talk) 19:34, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. --Bjarki (talk) 14:33, 11 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!188.108.218.75 (talk) 20:32, 11 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Deaths

Are the deaths verified by an autopsy? Or in just everybody count who got tested positive in his lifetime? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.209.197.248 (talk • contribs)

I think it includes everyone who has tested positive for the virus either before or after death. The first death in Iceland was a man around 40 years old and he did not present with the usual symptoms of covid-19 so it was unclear for a while if he should be counted. There were signs of pneumonia that probably was a factor in his death and he is counted in all official statistics now. --85.220.75.149 (talk) 10:25, 16 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It's probably worth adding a note to the article saying that the death count includes all those who tested positive, whether their death was due to (related to) COVID-19 or not. 188.108.183.102 (talk) 09:24, 18 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure that would be helpful though. The authorities explicitly say that 9 persons have died from Covid-19 so for these few deaths that have happened, it seems that they are confident about the cause of death. There have not been cases of people who have tested positive and then died from something unrelated. --Bjarki (talk) 17:16, 19 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discrepancy with past covid.is data

The chart/graph in the Statistics section showing the development of the number of total cases, active cases, recoveries and deaths is out of sync with figures for past days currently shown on https://www.covid.is/tolulegar-upplysingar as far as active cases and recoveries are concerned (and thus presumably totals as well). I assume that this is due to past data being analyzed, and information on covid.is being updated; if that's indeed the case the figures in this article should be updated as well, both in the graph and this template. (I'm not gonna do it, myself, but if someone else wants to …!) 88.71.5.245 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:58, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Chart seems to be out of sync again BTW; it'd probably be best to recreate it entirely, if anyone feels up to the task. 188.108.121.21 (talk) 13:15, 19 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"New cases by region" table

I'll not update that one any longer; I've been doing so for the past couple of months since noone else has, but I think it's outlived its usefulness. If anyone wants to take over, by all means do. 178.11.252.205 (talk) 19:37, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Broken chart

The chart showing the development of the number of cases, recoveries, active cases and deaths seems to be broken. If anyone wants to investigate why, please do so, otherwise I will stop updating it. It broke at new year's anyway, and like the table I think it has outlived its usefulness. Those who want charts should get them from OurWorldInData. 178.3.229.189 (talk) 18:03, 8 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks to whoever fixed this. 88.70.244.184 (talk) 14:30, 9 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]