Corona situation in Finland - for those interested

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The corona situation in Finland hasnt received much coverage overseas. Largely because it's been dealt with quietly and efficiently (as is the way here). The economy was shut down, the capital city area was quarantined, and everyone dutifully followed government guidelines about social distancing.

Schools are already due to reopen on 14th May, but in the news today it was announced that Finland will begin lifting some of its other corona-caused emergency measures from 1st June - representing, hopefully, light at the end of the tunnel. Finns have been very observant of the social distancing recommendations, and the outbreak of corona has been limited pretty much to the Helsinki district and surrounding area. For example, in the city where we live, in south east Finland, there has been only 14 cases, and none for 3 and a half weeks.

Not all the details have been published yet, but the headlines make for nice reading for us Finnish residents.

- Gathering in groups of up to 50 people will be ok
- Reopening of libraries and youth & sport centres
- Restaurants, bars and cafes will re-open (with restrictions of the numbers of customers at any one time)
- Travel abroad for business reasons, and other necessary trips, to restart

The government has still recommended that people act responsibly after a first wave was stunted, thanks to the cooperation of the people, but said a second wave cannot be ruled out, and that restrictions could be put back in place as and when required.




Anyway, hope you can all stay as safe as possible over there in the UK (and other places you post from). Just wanted to share some positive news (y)
 
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The corona situation in Finland hasnt received much coverage overseas. Largely because it's been dealt with quietly and efficiently (as is the way here). The economy was shut down, the capital city area was quarantined, and everyone dutifully followed government guidelines about social distancing.

Schools are already due to reopen on 14th May, but in the news today it was announced that Finland will begin lifting some of its other corona-caused emergency measures from 1st June - representing, hopefully, light at the end of the tunnel. Finns have been very observant of the social distancing recommendations, and the outbreak of corona has been limited pretty much to the Helsinki district and surrounding area. For example, in the city where we live, in south east Finland, there has been only 14 cases, and none for 3 and a half weeks.

Not all the details have been published yet, but the headlines make for nice reading for us Finnish residents.

- Gathering in groups of up to 50 people will be ok
- Reopening of libraries and youth & sport centres
- Restaurants, bars and cafes will re-open (with restrictions of the numbers of customers at any one time)
- Travel abroad for business reasons, and other necessary trips, to restart

The government has still recommended that people act responsibly after a first wave was stunted, thanks to the cooperation of the people, but said a second wave cannot be ruled out, and that restrictions could be put back in place as and when required.




Anyway, hope you can all stay as safe as possible over there in the UK (and other places you post from). Just wanted to share some positive news (y)
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Ta for that. Interesting to get feedback from another place in Europe.
 
Thanks for the positive story (y)

I think this country's half @rsed approach and the fact that far too many cannot be trusted, as they have showed nationwide, will result in this whole saga carrying on for a lot longer here.
 
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Unfortunately the least trustworthy are running the show. There was no early and clear decision taking for people to follow.

I hope Finland use quarantine for those entering the country. That was a big failing of the UK government, and still is.
 
Mika Salminen seems interesting. But he did say last week that he was expecting Finland's peak of infection to be this autumn and that they would need to open things up because keeping schools and businesses shut was unsustainable in the long term.
 
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