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After months of speculation, the majority of Finnish parties, together with the authorities, have announced a proposal to postpone the municipal elections from April until June, citing the deteriorating coronavirus situation.
The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare gave an update on the pandemic, estimating that infections could rise exponentially.
An impromptu meeting between the justice ministry and the secretaries of the parliamentary parties reached a conclusion that elections should be moved to 13 June. The parliament will make a final decision in the coming days.
Justice Minister Anna-Maja Henriksson, when interviewed by Finnish daily
Helsingin Sanomat on Sunday said that she was unaware of the postponement until Friday morning.
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Commercially available gene tests that shed light on individual s origins are popular. They provide an estimate of the geographic regions where one s ancestors come from. To arrive at such an estimate, the genetic information of an individual is compared to information pertaining to reference groups collected from around the world.
The findings now made by researchers from the University of Helsinki, Aalto University and the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare make it possible, for the first time, to make similar comparisons within Finland.
A research group at the University of Helsinki, headed by Associate Professor Matti Pirinen, who directed the study, has already earlier produced very detailed information on genetic structure in Finland. In the recently published study, reference groups were compiled from Finns with similar genetic ancestry and then applied to track the effects of migration in the 20th century on the population level.