Finland will introduce mandatory coronavirus tests and quarantines for travellers from certain high-risk countries, the minister in charge said today, after 24 of 157 passengers arriving from Skopje in North Macedonia tested positive for Covid-19.
The voluntary testing was organised at Turku airport in Finland on Saturday for all passengers arriving on a flight from Skopje after authorities had traced flights from North Macedonia and Bucharest in Romania as two main sources of recent coronavirus infections in Finland, the minister of family affairs and social services Krista Kiuru told reporters. "The epidemic is native of the Balkans," Ms Kiuru said, referring to the recent modest rise in infections in Finland.