Tag: Contact tracing

  • Helsinki instructs asymptomatic Covid patients to return to work and school

    Helsinki instructs asymptomatic Covid patients to return to work and school

    The City of Helsinki has instructed residents to return to work or school even in the event of a positive Covid test result, if they have no symptoms and it is not possible to arrange telework or study. Yle received instructions from health center and emergency staff last week. In documents, the city urged staff…

  • Several regions of Finland are ending official quarantine

    Several regions of Finland are ending official quarantine

    The hospital districts of Pirkanmaa and Central Finland, as well as the City of Helsinki, have announced that they will abandon official quarantine for coronavirus-positive persons. The HUS areas where the new protocol will be introduced in stages are Espoo, Hyvinkää, Järvenpää, Kauniainen, Kerava, Mäntsälä, Nurmijärvi, Pornainen, Porvoo, Sipoo, Tuusula and Vantaa. The same practice…

  • Ministry of Health official: Covid-19 is still a dangerous disease

    Ministry of Health official: Covid-19 is still a dangerous disease

    There are currently no plans to change the classification of the new coronavirus responsible for Covid-19 to a dangerous disease. Pasi Pohjola, Director of Strategic Affairs, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. On tuesday Mika SalminenThe Director of Health Security at the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) suggested that in light of the…

  • Varhila rejects demands to update the coronavirus strategy

    Varhila rejects demands to update the coronavirus strategy

    Helsinki and 11 other municipalities in Uusimaa announced on Monday that they would no longer track contacts or issue quarantine orders to those exposed to the virus in schools or workplaces. They added that people with mild symptoms should give up laboratory tests unless they are at increased risk of developing severe forms of coronavirus…

  • THL’s Salminen would replace quarantines with longer self-reported sick leave

    THL’s Salminen would replace quarantines with longer self-reported sick leave

    “We should, quite frankly, already give up contact tracing. I’m talking specifically about the mild cases of vaccinated people and tracing their contacts,” he explained to the broadcaster. The health care staff assigned to tracing the contact information should be transferred to the actual care tasks, he added, stressing that many social and health care…

  • The National Board of Health relaxes distance requirements for close contacts

    The National Board of Health changes its guidelines for close contacts. In future, you will only be considered close contact if you have been within a meter distance of an infected person for at least 15 minutes. Previously, it was two meters. This is stated by the National Board of Health in a press release.…

  • Covid restrictions will be eased throughout Finland

    Covid restrictions will be eased throughout Finland

    Finland intends to ease Covid’s restrictions on gatherings and events after criticizing the rules for sports and cultural events. In areas that are currently in the community mediation, it is possible to organize outdoor events for up to 50 people through safety instructions and social distance arrangements. Indoors, the number of participants will still be…

  • Infections in people entering Iceland

    All 18 cases of the Covid-19-causing coronavirus identified yesterday after testing at the border were in Iceland. According to Jóhann Björn Skúlason, head of the contact tracing team, all of these people entered the country from Poland. “The cases detected yesterday included at least 12 active infections, the highest number detected in … since late…

  • Former serum chief sees need for more coronary restrictions

    Although the recent spread of infection has affected several parts of the country, so far only additional restrictions have been introduced in the metropolitan area. Due to the development, however, there is reason to spread the austerity measures to more parts of the country. This is the assessment of Nils Strandberg Pedersen, who until 2016…