After You Have Been Test­ed for the Coronavirus

After a coro­n­avirus test, you need to be in home quar­an­tine until the test result has come back. The results come back in 1–5 days on aver­age. You can receive your test result from a coro­n­avirustest as a text mes­sage on you mobile phone, you can check the result on the My Kan­ta Pages or you can con­tact your health care sta­tion (the page is avail­able in Finnish and Swedish) to ask about the results.

• The person who is in quarantine should stay at home, but his/her family can otherwise continue to live a normal life.
• Being at home means restricting social contacts and travelling. Contacts of over 15 minutes with other people should be avoided.
• Running errands, such as going to the grocery store, outside of the home is not recommended. Instead, it is recommended that a family member/another close person does this until the test result has come back negative.
• Being outside is allowed as long as contact with other people is avoided. Family members are not in quarantine.
• If you have been put into quarantine according to the Communicable Diseases Act, a negative test result does not end the quarantine: you need to follow the instructions on quarantine until the end of the quarantine.

If Your Test Result is Positive

If your coro­n­avirus test result is pos­i­tive, you will receive a text mes­sage with short instruc­tions that you must fol­low. Please acquaint your­self care­ful­ly with the instruc­tions. Per­sons over the age of 60 are con­tact­ed by phone if the test result is positive.

Those who have been infect­ed, must avoid close con­tact with oth­er peo­ple for at least five days. Per­sons who have mild symp­toms do not need to be in con­tact with Soite’s infec­tion unit after this if they have two symp­tom-free days before the iso­la­tion ends.

More infor­ma­tion:

• Treating a Coronavirus Infection at Home
• Instructions for Quarantine and Isolation

If your health dete­ri­o­rates, call Soite’s com­mon emer­gency clin­ic, 116 117 (per­sons who have turned 16) or the pae­di­atric emer­gency clin­ic, 06 826 4444 (per­sons who have not yet turned 16). Please men­tion dur­ing the call that a coro­n­avirus test has been taken.

Link: Quar­an­tine and isolation