4 more coronavirus cases diagnosed in Finland

Four more cases of coronavirus infection were confirmed in Finland on Saturday, said National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL).

With this four, the total number of coronavirus infected people in the country reached to 19, said a THL press release.

Two cases- a working age person and a pensioner have been diagnosed at the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa while the rest two cases- two adult people were found in Tampere under Pirkanmaa Hospital District.

All the four infected people returned from northern Italy recently and have been instructed to isolate themselves at home, reported National Broadcaster Yle.

Earlier, on March 6 three cases of COVID-19 infection were confirmed in Finland.

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.

On March 5, five 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.