Iceland has tested one-tenth of its population for coronavirus at random and found HALF of people have the disease without realising

Daily Mail

Iceland has tested one-tenth of its population for coronavirus at random and found that half of people have the disease without realising. 

They also discovered that 1,600 people have been infected with Covid-19 since the start of the outbreak. Of these cases, there were only seven deaths, indicating a fatality rate of just 0.004 per cent, which is significantly lower than other countries, including the UK.  

The findings were made during Iceland's rigorous testing campaign, conducted with the help of Reykjavik-based biopharmaceutical company deCODE genetics, which has seen 10 per cent of the 364,413 population swabbed, something yet to be achieved by any other nation.   

An estimated 50 per cent of those infected with the virus, the company found, do not show any symptoms. "