30.12.2020

Direc­tives and rec­om­men­da­tions with­in Soite’s area remain in place — stay safe dur­ing the New Year’s celebrations

Cen­tral Ostrobothnia’s region­al Covid-19 author­i­ty work group gath­ered Wednes­day 30th Decem­ber 2020 to adjust the coro­n­avirus sit­u­a­tion­al pic­ture for Soite’s area. Soite’s area remains in the accel­er­a­tion phase of the coro­n­avirus spread and the cur­rent restric­tions and rec­om­men­da­tions remain in force until 10 of Jan­u­ary 2021.

Although indi­vid­ual pos­i­tive coro­n­avirus cas­es have been con­firmed in Soite’s area after Christ­mas, the sit­u­a­tion with­in Soite’s area is still calm. Cen­tral Ostrobothnia’s region­al Covid-19 author­i­ty work group also wants to thank the cit­i­zens in Soite’s area for fol­low­ing the instruc­tions, espe­cial­ly regard­ing the use of masks.

As the coro­n­avirus sit­u­a­tion in Soite’s neigh­bour coun­ties is worse than in Soite’s area, the author­i­ty work group decid­ed to keep cur­rent restric­tions and direc­tives in place. Soite’s area is still defined as being in the accel­er­a­tion phase.

A com­plete list­ing of the region­al coro­n­avirus restric­tions and rec­om­men­da­tions can be found at Soite’s coro­na web­site: https://korona.soite.fi/en/recommendations/

The Covid-19 author­i­ty work group will gath­er again on the 5th of Jan­u­ary 2021.

Rec­om­men­da­tions for the New Year’s celebrations

Soite wants to remind every­one to observe coro­na safe­ty dur­ing the New Year’s cel­e­bra­tion. This year dur­ing the New Year’s fire­works, remem­ber to observe not only the usu­al safe­ty mea­sures but also coro­na safe­ty. Dur­ing the pan­dem­ic, it is rec­om­mend­ed that the fes­tiv­i­ties are arranged as dis­tance gath­er­ings, and that masks and ade­quate safe­ty mea­sures are imple­ment­ed dur­ing phys­i­cal meetings.

Soite rec­om­mends avoid­ing close con­tact with any­one out­side close fam­i­ly in accor­dance with per­son­al con­sid­er­a­tion, and also that even pri­vate gath­er­ings are lim­it­ed to no more than 10 peo­ple. Please observe that even while shoot­ing fire­works out­doors, the num­ber of peo­ple gath­ered should be lim­it­ed to under 10.

One new coro­n­avirus case has been con­firmed in Soite’s area

One new coro­n­avirus case has been con­firmed in Soite’s area. The chain of infec­tion has been traced and those exposed have been mapped. No patients with COVID-19 are cur­rent­ly being treat­ed at the Cen­tral Ostro­both­nia Cen­tral Hospital.

In total, 153 cas­es of coro­n­avirus infec­tions have been con­firmed in the hos­pi­tal dis­trict of Cen­tral Ostro­both­nia dur­ing the pandemic.