🇫🇮 “We need to get the virus under control. This is the main thing we need to decide: to stop the virus spreading. It’s the only way to open our economies . . . health and economy are very heavily linked.”
Ms Marin said Finland’s success was down to a robust test&trace regime, half the population using its Covid app, and targeted restrictions (...) Finland would suffer if other European countries failed to get the pandemic under control, and urged them to back
a common strategy including increased testing, contact tracing, and joint rules to enable travel to restart.
Finland benefited from a strong focus on preparedness, including having laws already in place for dealing with pandemics and emergency stockpiles of protective
equipment. It is also helped by Finns’ tendency to keep a distance from each other (...) as well as low density and strong trust in authorities. But Pekka Nuorti, professor of epidemiology at Tampere University, said its success after the summer had more to do with its basic
epidemiological principles of test, isolate, trace& quarantine
[Marin] argued that EU countries should make a joint “conscious decision that we want to get the virus under control. I haven’t seen the decision made together that we want to suppress the virus as much as possible”
Promising news on two potential vaccines was “very good”, Ms Marin said, but she stressed that there was a “long way ahead” until a majority of people received jabs. She concluded: “The situation will get even more difficult if we don’t implement a common strategy together.”
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