Finnish health authorities have reported 24 new coronavirus infections diagnosed in the past 24 hours.
With them, the total number of infections detected in the country amounts to 7,776, according to figures from the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL, in its Finnish acronym).
To date, there have been 334 deaths in the country related to the coronavirus. The last reported fatality was on Monday 17 August in the Helsinki area.
There are also 5 people in hospital care in Helsinki, Kuopio and Turku. Currently, the country does not have any Covid-19 patients admitted to intensive care units.
Source: THL.
Deteriorating situation
The epidemiological situation, which was good at the beginning of the summer, has deteriorated during July and August.
The government admitted last week that the situation is getting worse, specially in the Helsinki-Uusimaa region.
The incidence of new cases in the latest two-week assessment period (27 July–9 August) was 4 per 100,000 inhabitants, the government said. But this figure is the national average. Since several Finnish regions have barely registered infections, the incidence will probably be much higher in the capital area, where most of the cases and deaths have been reported.
Of the 7,776 cases detected in Finland so far, 5,650 have been diagnosed in the Helsinki-Uusimaa area.
The total incidence of the disease (since the beginning of the pandemic) is 140 cases per 100,000 inhabitants throughout the country. But for the Helsinki region it is much more than double that figure: 335 infections per 100,000 inhabitants, according to THL.
An estimated 7,050 people have recovered from the disease, representing more than 90% of reported cases.
