On Wednesday 1 July, the Finnish National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) reported 22 new coronavirus infections. With those contagions, the total number of laboratory-diagnosed cases of Covid-19 throughout the country rose to 7,236.
No deaths associated with the disease were reported in the past 24 hours. So far, the death toll in the country is 328.
The region of Helsinki-Uusimaa remains as the worst-hit area by the epidemic. According to official figures, to date, 5,305 cases of Covid-19 have been found in the capital metropolitan area. Of them, 2,744 have been diagnosed in the city of Helsinki.
To date, the Helsinki university hospital special catchment area (HYKS) reported 271 fatalities (82.6% of the country's total). This means four out of every five deaths caused by the novel coronavirus have occurred in the Helsinki hospital area.
Source: THL.
Helsinki-Uusimaa is also the region showing the highest incidence of infections: there are 314.7 diagnosed cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
For the whole country, the average incidence rate is less than half that in Helsinki: 131 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, according to THL.
In intensive care
On Wednesday, the official number of patients hospitalized due to coronavirus nationwide was 24. However, none of them were admitted to intensive care units.
According to a preliminary estimate by THL, around 6,700 people may have already recovered from the disease.
To date, Finnish laboratories have taken samples from approximately 246,000 people.
