The Chief Epidemiologist has launched an interactive dashboard featuring information on specific infectious diseases monitored under the Act on Health Security and Communicable Disease Control.

Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson, Minister of Social Affairs and Labour, will present major changes to the disability pension system on Monday 22 April at 11:00.

November 14 every year is World Diabetes Day. Diabetes is a chronic metabolic disease characterized by high blood sugar levels because the body cannot process the sugar adequately.

In a recent interview with the agricultural paper Bændablaðið, Gústav Magnús Ásbjörnsson, Head of Department for Ecological Restoration at Land and Forest Iceland, told that currently around four hundred farmers are active in land reclamation projects in cooperation with the agency. Gústav says that the connections and knowledge yielded by the land reclamation cooperation with farmers are beneficial for all land reclamation efforts in Iceland.

The Directorate of Fisheries has compiled information on vessels and sent them to the digital mailbox at Island.is of the parties that have vessels that have not yet complied with fishing obligations, i.e. to fish 50% of the allocated catch limit and the catch limit that was transferred from the previous year.

The annual report of the Quality and Supervisory Authority for Welfare for 2023 has been published.

A short and useful educational video on income budgeting has been released.

The Directorate‘s Data Pages have been updated so that the browser's path includes the report and all filters

A total of 495 damage claims have been reported to NTI after the natural catastrophy in Grindavik. Assessment of 354 damage claims has been concluded, Assessors have started work on 138 cases and 3 new cases await processing. 430 of the total of 495 are damages to properties, 57 claims are for contents or liquid assets and 8 are claims of damage to utility systems in Grindavík.

Newsletter of Digital Iceland May 2024.