Traveling to Finland
Oct 1, 2020, 12:32 am
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Oct 1, 2020, 9:12 am
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Ahem. If the point was actually to nudge choices of travel destination toward areas not significantly riskier than Finland, the metric would have been an affine function of incidence in Finland, not a fixed value.
For instance: 10 + 1.5 X where X is Finland's incidence.
But the point is most definitely to discourage international travel at all. So then having a fixed limit makes "sense" even if Finland exceeds it.
For instance: 10 + 1.5 X where X is Finland's incidence.
But the point is most definitely to discourage international travel at all. So then having a fixed limit makes "sense" even if Finland exceeds it.
Oct 1, 2020, 9:33 am
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The wording indicated the belief that Finland would not exceed 25:
"Green - The risk of infection is not significantly higher than in Finland", based on incidence below fixed number 25.
I think they haggled their way to 25. "We need a number high enough to allow a lot of countries and low enough so we can claim it is not significantly higher than our own"
Also, incidence is not the sole factor in risk of getting infected. Think Leper colony.
Oct 1, 2020, 12:26 pm
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AFAIU, the argument now is rather that 25 is just a temporary limit for the transitional period until the testing regime is implemented.
Oct 1, 2020, 12:27 pm
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Oct 1, 2020, 1:16 pm
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Oct 1, 2020, 1:23 pm
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Oct 1, 2020, 1:53 pm
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Oct 1, 2020, 1:56 pm
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Oct 2, 2020, 3:47 pm
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Timatic says that transit is permitted for nationals of various European countries returning via Finland to their country of residence. So it should work for a Dane living in the U.S. to go CPH-HEL-JFK. But what about JFK-HEL-CPH?
Oct 2, 2020, 4:17 pm
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https://www.raja.fi/aktuellt/instruk..._gransovergang
Transittrafik i den ordinarie trafiken på flygplatsen
I trafiken över de yttre gränserna och till den del kontrollen vid de inre gränserna har återinförts tillåts transittrafik i den ordinarie trafiken på flygplatsen. Under transittransporten stannar man i regel på flygplatsens transitområde men personens inresa kan också tillåtas för att genomföra ovan nämnda transitering. En person kan övernatta till exempel på ett hotell eller en inkvarteringsfirma i närheten av flygplatsen, i synnerhet om väntetiden för transitering på flygplatsen blir lång.
I trafiken över de yttre gränserna och till den del kontrollen vid de inre gränserna har återinförts tillåts transittrafik i den ordinarie trafiken på flygplatsen. Under transittransporten stannar man i regel på flygplatsens transitområde men personens inresa kan också tillåtas för att genomföra ovan nämnda transitering. En person kan övernatta till exempel på ett hotell eller en inkvarteringsfirma i närheten av flygplatsen, i synnerhet om väntetiden för transitering på flygplatsen blir lång.
Säännöllisen reittiliikenteen kauttakulku lentoasemalla
Ulkorajaliikenteessä ja siltä osin kuin sisärajavalvonta on palautettu, säännöllisen reittiliikenteen kauttakulku lentoasemalla sallitaan. Kauttakulkumatkan aikana pysytään lähtökohtaisesti lentoaseman kauttakulkualueella, mutta henkilön maahantulo voidaan myös sallia edellä mainitun kauttakulun suorittamista varten. Henkilö voi majoittua esimerkiksi lentoaseman lähistöllä olevaan hotelliin tai majoitusliikkeeseen erityisesti, jos kauttakulun odotusaika lentoasemalla muodostuu pitkäksi.
Ulkorajaliikenteessä ja siltä osin kuin sisärajavalvonta on palautettu, säännöllisen reittiliikenteen kauttakulku lentoasemalla sallitaan. Kauttakulkumatkan aikana pysytään lähtökohtaisesti lentoaseman kauttakulkualueella, mutta henkilön maahantulo voidaan myös sallia edellä mainitun kauttakulun suorittamista varten. Henkilö voi majoittua esimerkiksi lentoaseman lähistöllä olevaan hotelliin tai majoitusliikkeeseen erityisesti, jos kauttakulun odotusaika lentoasemalla muodostuu pitkäksi.
Transit of regular scheduled air services at an airport
For external border traffic and to the extent that internal border controls have been restored, the transit on regularly scheduled routes is permitted. As a rule, during the transit journey, a person must remain in the transit area of the airport, but a person may also be permitted to enter the country for the purpose of the transit referred to above. For example, a person may stay at an airport hotel or other accommodation near the airport, especially if the layover during the transit is a long one.
For external border traffic and to the extent that internal border controls have been restored, the transit on regularly scheduled routes is permitted. As a rule, during the transit journey, a person must remain in the transit area of the airport, but a person may also be permitted to enter the country for the purpose of the transit referred to above. For example, a person may stay at an airport hotel or other accommodation near the airport, especially if the layover during the transit is a long one.
Oct 2, 2020, 7:09 pm
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This will be fine both ways. But there are no flights HEL-JFK-HEL at the moment.
Oct 4, 2020, 1:16 am
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While the tool is handy the GIS data they provide for free is not perfect. You can upload your own GIS-data, and surely such data is readily available inside government, but I guess it falls outside THL area of expertise.
Funnily, Gotska Sandön is correctly coded (as SE) and Åland is 35x times bigger so I wonder how it fell off the map. I wonder where the data came from. I guess there are a few places you can pull data from where you could easily miss Åland. For example it has a limited independence and is military free and has its own TLD, so it probably has its own GIS-data in such descriptions. Åland is EU and schengen area based on the Ålandsprotokoll (incuding tax excemptions and rules regarding who can own land) so perhaps GIS-data from EU also codes Åland separately from Finland.