A successful partnership that strengthens both institutions.

The unemployment rate in April was 3.6%, down from 3.8% in March.

Mycoplasma pneumoniae, a small bacterium, has been diagnosed more frequently in the last few months in Iceland. Mycoplasma infection is characterized by symptoms like tracheobronchitis and occasionally pneumonia.

Today, the possibility to download digital disability certificates was opened on Ísland.is and the chair of ÖBÍ, Þuríður Harpa Sigurðardóttir, has already downloaded the digital disability certificate on her smartphone.

The Directorate of Health has published an interactive dashboard on excess mortality and COVID-19 mortality.

The managing director of Natural Disaster Insurance will be present and available for appointments at the service centre in Herðubreið, Seyðisfjörður, on 26 and 27 January.

STS, the coalition of ten management unions donated generous gifts to the Hospital in Húsavík in early May.

Akureyri hospital will show support in the participation in the women's strike on October 24th. to the extent that the health and safety of patients will be guaranteed. The majority of the staff at the Akureyri hospital in are women and we want to protect and promote equality.

At the Climate Day of the Environment Agency of Iceland, which took place recently, the development of emissions and binding in Iceland was reviewed. It was revealed that in 2022 Iceland’s total emissions increased by almost one percent from the previous year. Emissions due to land use increased by the same number, but it was also revealed that the binding of forest land has increased seventeenfold since 1990. Figures on emissions and sequestration in the land use category are based, among other things, on the extensive work of Land and Forest Iceland's experts.

The forthcoming implementation of a new regulation on the operation of drones will require drone operators to register with the Civil Aviation Authority.