Surging coronavirus infections are forcing local authorities in Finland to stray from the government's COVID-19 strategy based on mass testing, tracking and isolation.
Helsinki and neighbouring cities recommend that people with a mild infection do not get an official test as the waiting time can now be days, city mayors and Helsinki hospital district said in a joint statement on Tuesday.
She added she feared returning to school was not safe and called for local authorities to implement strict quarantines at schools in which one pupil's COVID infection would result in quarantine for the entire exposed class. "It would be disproportionate to implement large-scale quarantines at schools when they have not been a high-risk environment to begin with," Isosomppi said.For more than a year, the government's main strategy to counter the pandemic has been to test and trace infections throughout society, but this week local authorities began to openly rebel against the measures.
Helsinki and 11 other municipalities in the capital region had already said on Monday that they were giving up on mandating quarantines on infected patients in most cases, focusing their efforts only at health care units and elderly care units.
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