Iceland reveals intriguing Coronavirus data

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The little country in the middle of the ocean has randomly tested 10% of its population, around 36,000 people. 1700 have tested positive on the island so far with just 8 deaths. Interestingly half of the people who tested positive in this group, had no symptoms. They did not know they ever had it, They may well be the chief spreaders in lockdown in family homes and the work place now. Its likely a big chunk of our populations have had non symptomatic covid19 or have it now. This drags down the death rate significantly but also increases spread s to kill more. Iceland are the perfect petri-dish to get some facts, 40 mutations of the virus Iceland's high-volume testing also involves genetic sequencing of the different samples of the virus, which helps researchers to investigate the various mutations of the virus. The testing has also revealed that there are at least 40 mutations of coronavirus in Iceland, and the virus might develop to become more contagious, but less dangerous. These variants can also act as the fingerprints of the virus to trace its origin.