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REYKJAVIK, Iceland, April 14, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – A district court in Iceland’s capital city of Reykjavik ruled in seven cases last week that forcing people to stay at a quarantine hotel is illegal.
The Reykjavík District Court ruled that the provisions of Art. Regulation 355/2021 on forcing passengers coming from other countries with significant COVID cases to stay in quarantine hotels “lacks legal basis,” the government stated about the ruling on its website.
The government had mandated, beginning April 1, that all travelers arriving in Iceland from countries with a high number of COVID cases must quarantine in hotels designated by the government. Travelers were required to stay at the quarantine hotel until they received the result of a second COVID-19 test proving that they did not have the virus.
After the ruling, those in quarantine hotels were released and informed that they were free to complete quarantine elsewhere.
Iceland Monitor reported April 6 that guests of at least four hotel rooms immediately decided to leave the quarantine hotel after the ruling.
The Ministry of Health says it is
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