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.