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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...

Officials have postponed local elections over Covid concerns, but primary schools remain open. APN asked Andersson if Finland has done enough to keep schools safe, as it has not introduced mass testing. "Testing in schools [in Finland] to date has not changed our picture of the situation so far," she told APN. With many pupils in the country learning remotely this school year, Andersson said the divide between different socio-economic groups was growing. "The issue we have had to tackle is the lack of support for learning that you see in many families," she explained. Finland often claims it...

Morning newspapers analyse the state spending budget for 2021. The state spending projection for 2021 is 13.1 percent higher than last year. Image: Miro Johansson Finland's largest daily Helsingin Sanomat reports that the Finnish state will spend 65.2 billion euros in this year's budget, which is considerably more than in any previous year and 13.1 percent higher than last year. Approximately 1.7 billion euros has been budgeted directly for tackling the coronavirus pandemic. Of this amount, 1.4 billion will be spent on testing and tracing required by Finland's hybrid strategy, based on the �...

Left Alliance chair and Member of Parliament Li Andersson had a baby girl at Turku University Hospital this week, the education minister, now on leave, said on Instagram. "The world's most wonderful creature arrived this week...and we’re the happiest people in the world," Andersson posted on the image-sharing platform. Last September Andersson announced that she was expecting a child with her domestic partner, former ice hockey player Juha Pursiainen. MP Jussi Saramo took over as education minister in December after Andersson requested a leave of absence from the post for the duration of...

The Ministry of Finance announced new measures to improve employment among the over-55s. Government party leaders outlined employment measures affecting workers over the age of 55. Authors at a press conference on Thursday. Image: Heikki Saukkomaa / Lehtikuva Government parties have come to an agreement to scrap the ‘pension pipeline’, an enhanced unemployment benefits scheme offered to older people in Finland. The agreement came after Finland's unions and employer organisations failed to secure a deal on eliminating the pension pipeline earlier in the year, in a blow to Finland's system ...