Services for applicants for international protection have been transferred from the Directorate of Immigration to the Directorate of Labour. The changes took effect on July 1st.

Ágúst Ibsen Snorrason has been appointed as a psychiatrist in the psychiatric ward of SAk, with a 75% post, as of 1 October.

Gísli I. Þorsteinsson is the first person in Iceland to donate blood two hundred and fifty times.

Services and advice on health-related matters to the public have been expanded to the telephone number 1700 and on the Health website.

On Sunday, 3 December, a ceremony occurred at Bessastaðir, where Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, President of Iceland, presented an award on Prevention Day 2023. Alma D. Möller, the Medical Director of Health and the President, gave a speech.

Ban on bottom trawl fishing at Berufjarðarálshorn will take effect today, 18th of April, at 12:00 and will expire at 12:00 on 2nd of May 2024.

Þann 3. apríl verður opið hús á SHH kl. 15-16.

In week 42 (October 14-20), 29 people were diagnosed with COVID-19, either through PCR testing or clinical diagnosis (a doctor’s diagnosis without lab tests), a similar number to the previous week.

Specialists from the Icelandic Radiation Safety Authority monitored the movements of a nuclear-powered submarine today.

Lower grants to individuals who do not need visa to Iceland