3 more coronavirus cases detected in Finland

Three more cases of COVID-19 infection were confirmed in Finland on Friday, said National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL).

One case has been diagnosed at the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa while one case at the Northern Ostrobothnia Hospital District and another case at the South Karelia Social and Health Care District, said a THL press release.

The hospital districts and local health care authorities will continue to investigate the situation together with the THL.

So far, a total of 15 coronavirus infections have been diagnosed in Finland.

Earlier, on Thursday five new cases of COVID-19 infection were confirmed in the country.

Three of the cases were diagnosed in Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS), and two others are in Pirkanmaa Hospital District and Kanta-Hame Hospital District.

On March 1, two cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Helsinki by the Helsinki and Uusimaa hospital district (HUS).

They had contact with a woman who had tested positive for COVID-19 in Helsinki on February 28.

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.