The health authorities of the city of Jyväskylä in Central Finland confirmed on Tuesday that 19 new coronavirus infections have been diagnosed in the last 24 hours and that almost 400 people have received quarantine orders.
More than half of the infections detected in the city’s health care area in the last two weeks have been revealed in the last two days, but the situation is under control. Ilkka Käsmä, the city’s chief infectious disease.
“Unfortunately, three distinct groups of diseases spread simultaneously but are not related to each other. This was a misfortune. These are mainly workplace infections,” Käsmä said.
Both Käsmä and the mayor of Jyväskylä Timo Koivisto described the situation as serious but manageable.
“There has been no such cluster of infections in a few days, even in the spring. We draw up instructions [on further action] if the situation worsens. If it gets worse, restrictions on events and hobby gatherings need to be increased,” Koivisto said.
The mayor pointed out that there were not enough people in the city with face masks on public transport.
Health officials have said the recent rise in infection levels was due to the spread of the coronavirus in asymptomatic virus carriers. Infected people did not know they were Covid-positive and spread it to others in their workplaces.
Health officials continued to investigate the risk of weapons of mass destruction in two other cities on Tuesday.
The city on the Russian border is fighting local clusters
At the same time, near the Russian border, health authorities in Kuhmo, almost 400 km northeast of Jyväskylä, continue to break out the local coronavirus.
On Tuesday, the Kainuu Joint Social and Health Care Authority confirmed a new case of coronavirus, when 16 cases of Covid-19 were detected on Monday.
The chain of infection in this area was apparently due to the discovery that the person who had originally tested for the negative disease was indeed Covid-positive.
The number of people exposed in this case was 150-200, according to health authorities.
More than 400 people were tested in the Kainuu region on Monday, but according to the region’s pandemic manager, many more people still need to be tested, Olli-Pekka Koukkari.
“Hundreds of people can still be tested in the queue,” he said, adding that all potentially exposed individuals have been reached and tested. Tests by a few exposed individuals were still unfinished by Tuesday afternoon.
Source: The Nordic Page