“It’s clear as the sky that the pandemic is not over, this will still take a long time,” Mika Salminen, director of the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), said in a press conference on Thursday morning.
On Thursday, the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) has confirmed 259 new coronavirus infections in Finland. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the total number of coronavirus cases is 90,946.
Mika Salminen, director of THL, reminded at a press conference in the morning that while the number of new infections has decreased in the past few months “this virus still has great chances to spread.” “It’s clear as the sky that the pandemic is not over, this will still take a long time,” Salminen said.
The British variant is currently predominant in Finland, but in the past few weeks, we have also witnessed the Indian variant beginning to take hold. “We have to remember that all these variants are more infectious.”
Salminen added that vaccinations against the coronavirus are moving rapidly: about 2.2 million people have received the first jab.
Spread of the virus
In the past 24 hours, most new coronavirus cases were found in the following cities:
57 in Helsinki, 34 in Vantaa, 20 in Lahti, 15 in Espoo, 13 in Tampere, 11 in Hämeenlinna.
New infections were also confirmed in, among others, Kannus (7), Turku (7), Janakkala (7), Kokkola, (5), Mikkeli (5), Kotka (5).
