HELSINKI, April 7 — Finland announced tougher controls today to further reduce arrivals from its neighbours including Sweden, where measures to tackle the coronavirus have been less severe and infection rates higher. The two countries’ land border in Lapland is usually crossed by...
Helsinki has started emergency laws in a bid to stem the virus' spread. — Lehtikuva/Emmi Korhonen picture via Reuters
The two countries’ land border in Lapland is usually crossed by thousands of workers and families every day, although traffic across the Swedish and Norwegian borders has fallen by 95 percent since the government banned all but essential traffic on March 14, Finland’s Interior Minister Maria Ohisalo told a press conference.
Under the new measures, workers must now carry a permission slip from their employer stating that the border crossing is essential and must remain under quarantine for 14 days on arrival in Finland. “It is a significant risk when so many people are coming through the border every day,” Dr Markku Broas of Lapland Central Hospital told Finnish public broadcaster Yle on 29 March. But while Finland has imposed emergency laws closing schools, blockading its capital region and forcing restaurants to close, Sweden has taken a notably softer approach with far fewer restrictions than elsewhere in Europe.
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