07.04.2021

Soite con­tin­ues on the base lev­el when it comes to the coro­n­avirus epi­dem­ic — no new cas­es today

The Cen­tral Ostro­both­nia region­al COVID-19 group of author­i­ties had a meet­ing on the 7th of April 2021 in order to assess the sit­u­a­tion­al pic­ture and the region­al rec­om­men­da­tions. Soite’s area con­tin­ues to be on the base lev­el when it comes to the coro­n­avirus epi­dem­ic. The valid­i­ty of the region­al rec­om­men­da­tions was extend­ed to the 30th of April 2021. No new coro­n­avirus cas­es have been con­firmed in Soite’s area.

Dur­ing last week (week 13), 13 pos­i­tive coro­n­avirus cas­es were con­firmed in Soite’s area. 86 per­sons were put into quar­an­tine. The share of pos­i­tive test results was 0.9% (of 1461 tests). The inci­dence dur­ing the past 14 days was 20.6/100 000 res­i­dents. No patients are cared for at the hos­pi­tal because of COVID-19. All recent cas­es have been traced to 100%.

The coro­n­avirus sit­u­a­tion has wors­ened in the area because of chains of infec­tion and expo­sure that start­ed before East­er from gath­er­ings dur­ing spare time and because of fur­ther cas­es that the chains have led to. The fur­ther cas­es have most­ly been con­firmed in per­sons who have been in quar­an­tine and no sig­nif­i­cant spread­ing of the ill­ness can be seen.

As not all cri­te­ria for the accel­er­a­tion phase are met and as the past few days have been calm, the group of author­i­ties deemed that Soite’s area con­tin­ues on the base lev­el when it comes to the coro­n­avirus epi­dem­ic. The fol­low­ing days will show if the grounds for keep­ing Cen­tral Ostro­both­nia on the base lev­el will hold up.

The valid­i­ty of the region­al rec­om­men­da­tions was extend­ed to the 30th of April 2021. All the region­al reg­u­la­tions and rec­om­men­da­tions regard­ing the coro­n­avirus epi­dem­ic with­in Soite’s area are list­ed on Soite’s coro­na web­site: https://korona.soite.fi/en/recommendations/

The reg­u­la­tion by The Region­al State Admin­is­tra­tive Agency on restrict­ing the num­ber of par­tic­i­pants in pub­lic events and pub­lic gath­er­ings to 20 per­sons is in effect through the 30th of April 2021. The group of author­i­ties rec­om­mends that no gath­er­ings of over 10 per­sons are orga­nized in the area.

The region­al COVID-19 group of author­i­ties has its next meet­ing on the 14th of April 2021. If the coro­n­avirus sit­u­a­tion requires it, the group will meet before that in order to pos­si­bly make a deci­sion on mov­ing to the accel­er­a­tion phase.

The sit­u­a­tion today

No new coro­n­avirus cas­es have been con­firmed in Soite’s area. The lat­est coro­n­avirus cas­es were con­firmed on Sat­ur­day 3rd of April 2021.

The region­al sit­u­a­tion­al pic­ture can be found on Soite’s coro­n­avirus web­site: https://korona.soite.fi/en/corona-virus-info/