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Helsinki residents will soon have greater access to rapid coronavirus testing, reports Swedish-language Huvfudstadsbladet (HBL).
Authorities at Helsinki and Uusimaa healthcare district HUS are due to roll out a so-called Corona bus that will act as a mobile testing station for city residents. The procurement is now complete and the bus will be ready for use in the next two weeks, perhaps even as soon as next week, HUS Director of Diagnostic Services
Lasse Lehtonen told HBL.
The idea of the bus is to push up testing numbers at locations like construction sites and among immigrant communities which have seen disproportionately high case numbers, HBL writes.
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Covid case cluster emerges after students Lapland ski trip
Those diagnosed with Covid were on a trip with dozens of students from University of Eastern Finland s Kuopio campus.
Saariselkä Ski and Sport Resort, file photo.
Image: Vesa Toppari / Yle
At least 18 foreign exchange students in Kuopio have been diagnosed with coronavirus infections following a ski holiday trip in Finnish Lapland earlier this month, according to a Kuopio health official.
The infected individuals went to the Saariselkä ski resort in late February, in a group of 46 exchange students from the University of Eastern Finland s Kuopio campus.
The city of Kuopio s infectious diseases chief,
Covid case cluster emerges after students Lapland ski trip
Those diagnosed with Covid were on a trip with dozens of students from University of Eastern Finland s Kuopio campus.
Saariselkä Ski and Sport Resort, file photo.
Image: Vesa Toppari / Yle
At least 18 foreign exchange students in Kuopio have been diagnosed with coronavirus infections following a ski holiday trip in Finnish Lapland earlier this month, according to a Kuopio health official.
The infected individuals went to the Saariselkä ski resort in late February, in a group of 46 exchange students from the University of Eastern Finland s Kuopio campus.
The city of Kuopio s infectious diseases chief,