Fourteen new Covid cases

Yesterday’s 1,846 Covid tests yielded 14 positive results.

Three of the four people who tested positive on arrival from abroad were on board yesterday’s Atlantic Airways flight from Mallorca.

“It would be wise of anyone on board this flight to self-isolate until they receive a negative result from their follow-up test four days after arrival – and they should also consider taking another test on the sixth day after arrival,” says public health professor Pál Weihe.

Six out of the remaining ten people who tested positive yesterday are linked to a known chain of infection, while the infection source of the other four has yet to be determined.

Register for vaccines

Vaccine registrations have re-opened. Click here to book an appointment. Those requiring assistance with filling in the forms can call 304545 on weekdays between 2pm and 4pm. Questions can also be directed to the Corona hotline (304040), open Mondays-Thursdays 10am-3pm.

The daily numbers of positive tests over the past week have been as follows: 0, 3, 0, 3, 9, 10 and 14.

There are currently 48 active Covid-19 cases in the country. One person is receiving hospital treatment for Covid-19, and 291 people are currently listed as being in quarantine.

According to the latest vaccination figures on corona.fo, updated today, 31,602 people (59.3 percent of the population) have received the first shot of the vaccine, while 21,373 (40.1 percent) have received the second shot.

For further information about Covid-19 in the Faroes, visit corona.fo.

Read the Faroese version of this article here.

Translated by prosa.fo.

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