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Old Oct 28, 2020, 10:27 am
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Hezu
 
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Originally Posted by the810
Does anyone know what's Finland like these days?
IMHO the situation is fairly stable. Since there has been rise in the infections, there are now some restrictions and recommendations for mask usage and working from home whenever possible, but nearly everything is open. The main exception must be nightclubs and similar, which do not want to open since there are restrictions that disallow serving alcohol in the late night (last orders at 22:00, doors close hour later) and how many people can be in the premises once (and that there should be distancing). In various events there are similar regulation on seating arrangements and some events have been cancelled, eg. some sport events have been cancelled when there has been teams with infections.
And obviously there is some regional variation: some areas have not had significant epidemic so far, but there has also been some notorious incidents where some fairly significant infection chains that did spread quite quickly in some areas.
Certainly so far Finland has been spared from the worst of the pandemic, but of course few reckless superspreaders and the situation can change quite quickly. Still, I believe that we will not see any strict actions like true curfew/lockdown in Finland since there has been talk that the Finnish government would prefer to adjust the "normal" legislation to better handle the pandemic rather than use the powers from the law of the state of emergency, which was used in the spring.
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