COVID-19 pandemic in the Faroe Islands
2020 CE.
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The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached the Faroe Islands, an autonomous territory of Denmark, in March 2020. The confirmed infection rate was 1 case per 280 inhabitants, one of the highest rates in the world, but the archipelago also tested at a very high frequency, with the number of tests equaling c. 34 per cent of the population (one of the highest in the world, per capita). As of 28 February 2022, there have been 34648 confirmed cases. Among these, 31 persons have died with COVID-19. From 1 March 2022 there are no COVID-19 restrictions in the Faroe Islands and no more mass testing. On 7 February 2022, new daily record was set with 1265 positive cases. Around 778,000 people were tested for COVID-19 in the Faroe Islands from March 2020 until 28 February 2022. The number of tests is amounting to 14 times the country's population, which as of 1 September 2021, had reached 53,498 according to Statistics Faroe Islands (Hagstova Føroya). There have been six waves of COVID-19 cases in the Faroe Islands, the biggest one in the last months of 2021 and the first months of 2022.
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