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. The goal is to contact persons over the age of 60 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:
- An assessment for a person who has COVID-19 and is at risk of an occlusion in a blood vessel
- Instructions for persons who have COVID-19
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.