2 more coronavirus cases confirmed in Finland

Two new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Helsinki by the Helsinki and Uusimaa hospital district (HUS) on Sunday, reported news agency Xinhua quoting National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL).

The new cases are persons who had contact with a woman who had tested positive for COVID-19 in Helsinki on Friday.

Both infected returned home after sampling and are in good conditions. They have been instructed to remain quarantined at home.

The screenings for those who were exposed to the patient diagnosed on Friday have been done well, and the exposed individuals have been contacted, said THL.

So far, a total of five COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in Finland.

Earlier, on February 28, a patient is a working-age Finnish woman in Helsinki was diagnosed infected with the virus. She returned from northern Italy recently.

On February 26 another Finnish woman in Helsinki was diagnosed with coronavirus infection.

The patient is also a working-age person who had caught the disease while visiting Milan, Northern Italy.

In late January, a female Chinese tourist tested positive for novel coronavirus in northern Finland's Lapland. She had been discharged from hospital later.