As of June 1 anyone arriving into Finland via a border crossing point in Lapland is subject to a mandatory health check.
Beginning from Tuesday 1 June, all travellers arriving into Finland at any border crossing point in Lapland must undergo a mandatory health check.
At Pello, on the frontier
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.
79,094 lab-confirmed infections as of Saturday 3.4 (up by 422 since Friday)
846 deaths attributed to coronavirus as of Thursday 1.4 (up by 2 since Wednesday)
264 people in hospital, 52 of them in intensive care as of Thursday 1.4
971,827 people (17.5% of the population) had received at least one vaccination dose as of Saturday 3.4
THL reports on Covid-related fatalities and hospital patient statistics on weekdays
3.4 16:51 Speaker condemns MP s threatening mask mandate tweet
Speaker of Parliament
Anu Vehviläinen (Cen) has condemned a threatening tweet sent by MP
Ano Turtiainen and said she intends to bring the matter before Parliament when MPs return from the Easter holiday.
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