Avi rules gyms and other free-time facilities in Helsinki region can reopen within limits
Exercise and free-time facilities closed on Monday can reopen, but with no more than 10 people present at any time.
Workouts in private gyms are still allowed, as long as no more than 10 people share the space.
Image: Roni Rekomaa / Lehtikuva
The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health and the Regional State Administrative Agency for Southern Finland (Avi) have resolved a dispute over whether gyms and other free-time facilities in the Helsinki region may be open if they host no more than 10 people at a time.
Gyms, group exercise facilities, public saunas, spa pool facilities, dance venues, amusement parks, indoor facilities at zoos, indoor playgrounds, amateur theatres and public facilities in shopping malls in the Helsinki region were all closed on Monday 1 March.
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Finland declares state of emergency to fight Covid epidemic
The government also submitted a proposal to Parliament on the closure bars and restaurants for a three-week period.
Prime Minister Sanna Marin (SDP) and Employment Minister Tuula Haatainen (SDP) at the Monday afternoon press conference.
Image: Vesa Moilanen / Lehtikuva
Finland has declared a state of emergency to give the government more flexibility in issuing further restrictions in efforts to combat the coronavirus epidemic.
Prime Minister
Sauli Niinistö.
Finland recorded 720 new confirmed cases on Friday, a new daily record that focused attention on an uptick in cases in a country that has not been hit as hard by Covid as many other EU states.