British citizens in Finland must apply for a right of residence under the UK's withdrawal agreement no later than 30 September.
By the end of August, a total of 3,923 so-called Brexit permit applications had been submitted.
The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) on Monday updated its recommendations on testing under 12-year-olds and the definition of exposure in the context of education. (Teemu Salonen – Lehtikuva)
THE FINNISH INSTITUTE for Health and Welfare (THL) has updated its recommendations for testing children for the new coronavirus, stating that under 12-year-olds no longer need to get tested for flu-like symptoms.
THL on Monday told that under 12-year-olds should get tested if they develop symptoms and have verifiably been exposed to a laboratory-confirmed coronavirus infection in the past two weeks.
A young woman received an injection of the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine in Helsinki on 30 June 2021. (Vesa Moilanen – Lehtikuva)
THE HOSPITAL DISTRICT of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS) on Friday announced it has launched a third round of coronavirus vaccinations in an attempt to prevent a batch of 15,000 vaccine doses from expiring.
The decision was made by the hospital district and municipalities represented in the regional coronavirus coordination group on Thursday.
How much does teleworking reduce emissions from transport? What about transport services or combined transport? Three studies provide new information on ways to reduce emissions.
The EU fishing fleet receives a tax break of between €759 million and €1.5 billion from fuel tax subsidies each year, as well as producing nearly 7.3 million tons of CO2 just from burning fuel, according to a report published today by the Our Fish campaign.
Customers at the Iso Omena shopping centre.
A new study on the effects of payroll tax cuts on firm-level activity by Youssef Benzarti and Jarkko Harju was recently accepted for publication in the Journal of Public Economics. The study shows that firm-level payroll tax reductions make firms more resilient and less hampered by negative effects of recessions. In particular, employment effects are exacerbated for men and low-skilled employees.
Only five European countries, including Finland, registered a drop in education spending per student in 2012–2018, according to the OECD. (Emmi Korhonen – Lehtikuva)
FINLAND is one of only a handful of countries to reduce spending on education per student between 2012 and 2018, reveals a report published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
While in the OECD per-student spending rose by an average of 1.6 per cent a year over the seven-year period, it fell by about one per cent in Finland, according to Helsingin Sanomat.
A medical professional tended to a patient receiving respiratory assistance due to a coronavirus infection at the intensive care unit of a university hospital in Pointe-a-Pitre in Guadeloupe, a French region in the Caribbean. (Carla Bernhardt – AFP/Lehtikuva)
HOSPITAL STAFF in Finland have voiced their frustration with the fact that most patients in intensive care with a coronavirus infection have not been vaccinated against the virus, reports Helsingin Sanomat.
“We’ve continued treating coronavirus patients this autumn, and practically everyone of them has been unvaccinated,” said Tero Varpula, the head of intensive care at Jorvi Hospital in Espoo.
Minister of Employment Tuula Haatainen (left) and Minister of Social Affairs and Health Hanna Sarkkinen commented on the government’s family leave reform in a presser in Helsinki on Friday, 17 September 2021. (Heikki Saukkomaa – Lehtikuva)
FAMILY LEAVES in Finland are to become longer and more flexible under a reform unveiled by the government of Prime Minister Sanna Marin (SDP) on Thursday.
The objective of the proposal is to foster the well-being of children and families, and promote equality and non-discrimination in both working life and the everyday life of families with children, according to a press release from the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health.
Customers at Sello Shopping Centre in Espoo on 27 July 2021. Danske Bank says private consumption will push economic growth to 3.3 per cent in 2021 and 3.0 per cent in 2022 in Finland. (Mikko Stig – Lehtikuva)
THE CORONAVIRUS pandemic is no longer casting a massive dark cloud over economic growth in Finland.
Danske Bank on Wednesday reported that it expects the national economy to expand this year by 3.3 per cent, instead of the 2.6 per cent it forecast earlier, driven primarily by pent-up demand from households. It also revised up its growth forecast for next year – by 0.1 percentage points to 3.0 per cent.
An eight-grader studying remotely at home in Espoo on 27 April 2020. (Vesa Moilanen – Lehtikuva)
THE COVID-19 epidemic has taken a greater toll on the well-being of girls than boys, suggests a national student health survey conducted by the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL).
Girls, the biennial survey found, have experienced more anxiety and loneliness, been less satisfied with their life, and perceived their health as average or poor more often than boys in the unusual circumstances.
