New regulation on road signs and their use took effect on 1 March 2024

Iceland Health and the Health care Höfða ehf. have concluded an agreement on the operation of 50 public day-care facilities for elderly persons at Höfðabakka 9 in Reykjavík.

HSN aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and is a part of the process of looking at Green steps in the selection of car rentals.

The National catastrophe insurance of Iceland (NTÍ) has received a total of 432 reports of damage due to the natural disaster in Grindavík, of which 8 reports were received last week. 266 house properties and 15 contents have been inspected, but 122 damage to house property and 29 damage to contents/moveable property remain uninspected, which is unclear when it will be possible to inspect.

March 24 is World Tuberculosis Day, on which day in 1882 Dr. Robert Koch declared that he had discovered the cause of the tuberculosis disease, the tuberculosis bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

On June 8, 2020, a serious vulnerability in security was discovered in Heilsuvera’s maternity section and in the communication section of My Pages, which is managed by the Directorate of Health but developed and operated by Origo. Less than an hour after the vulnerability was reported, Origo had verified its existence and shut down Heilsuvera. In about five hours, changes were made to the system that fixed the vulnerability, it was reviewed and confirmed by the security company Syndis. After that, the system was put back into use.

NTÍ has received about 500 reports of damage in Grindavík since the events began there on 10th of November last year. During the review of submitted damage claims, it has become apparent that more than one damage claim has been submittet for several cases, and therefore the number of cases that require processing by NTÍ is slightly below the submitted damage claims, or 474. Damage assessment has been completed in 196 cases, processing by assessors has started in 217 cases, but 61 cases are awaiting damage inspection. Of these 474 cases, 414 are related to real estate, 54 related to personal property and contents, and six related to utility systems.

The bulk carrier Federal Spey – IMO 9610456 - was detained in Straumsvík on 5 July.

Icetra will host an examiner standardisation course for the revalidation/renewal of FE certificates on 7 March.

Oddfellow makes a generous donation to the inpatient mental health unit.