The number of coronavirus (koronavirus, in Finnish) increase in Finland every day.
One of the most interesting recent developments abouth this Covid-19 epidemic is that so far 4 teachers have been diagnosed with the disease. This has obliged to quarantine dozens of pupils across the country. Each infected teacher was working in a different part of Finland.
One teacher was from North Karelia, working at Kummu School in Outokumpu. The other was from Forssa, working at Wahren College. Another one was working at Lauttasaari primary school in Helsinki. All these three teachers visited North Italy recently and got infected.
The fourth person was from Kangasala (16 kilometers east of Tampere), working at Pitkäjärvi School. However, health authorities didn’t comment on whether the infection was originated in North Italy.
40 Infections
On Tuesday, new coronavirus infections were reported in Finland. So far, 40 infections have been confirmed, up from seven on Monday night.
Three new infections have been confirmed in the Helsinki and Uusimaa Hospital District (Hus). All of them working age. Two of the infected men had both been on their way to Italy, one of them also in Austria.
On Monday, new infections were reported in the healthcare districts of Central Finland, Helsinki and Uusimaa, Kanta-Häme and Pirkanmaa.
