It was indeed.

https://pledgetimes.com/covid-19-iceland-denies-the-responsi...

That story quotes one guy, who is not a government official, and provides no other evidence to back up its claims.

Sketchy news rehosting site run by two people is sketchy.

Cited AFP source is real (in french).

https://twitter.com/afpfr/status/1309551051306131456

How odd that the text of the twitter thread (translated) is exactly the same as the article, right down to the exact same quote by businessman Kari Stefánsson

He is the CEO of Decode a large genetics testing company here which contributed a majority of the early testing to the populace before the National Health Service could catch up.

Both this article and the original post talk about the different "strains" of CoV2. I thought there were no real strains; and that the L/S strain reports from earlier weren't correct?

There are minor genetic variations that can be used to trace whether infections came directly from Wuhan or through Italy or wherever. These variations do not vary the function of the virus or its infectiousness or reproduction in any known way, but do enable some methods for tracing the spread. California has an aggressive ongoing effort to sequence the genes of all COVID-19 cases which has contributed to this.

COVID-19 re-infection by a phylogenetically distinct SARS-coronavirus-2 strain confirmed by whole genome sequencing (https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid...)

Current studies suggest there are up to six distinct strains.

Another source (in French) :

https://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/covid-19-l-islande-dement...

That's exactly the same article as the other, with minor differences. It's not a different source, but it might be the source of the text of the article at the sketchy news rehosting site.