Unlike many other countries, Finland is limiting coronavirus tests to the most vulnerable groups and healthcare personnel only. The national health authority says testing people with mild symptoms would be a waste of healthcare resources. “We don’t understand the WHO’s instructions for testing. If someone claims that, they don’t understand pandemics,” Finland’s head of health security Mika Salminen of the Finnish Institute of Health and Welfare told the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper. The Finnish government said on Monday it would inject more money into testing to increase capacity.

Source: The Express Tribune March 20, 2020 08:15 UTC