Nearly all of Finland's local governments are ignoring health ministry instructions on a general roll-out of a fourth coronavirus vaccination, Ilta-Sanomat reports.
Protecting the population and maintaining healthcare capacity during the pandemic are compelling reasons to justify exceptionally far-reaching government action, the committee said.
"We need to acknowledge that the world already has concrete examples of the tidal wave that's in store if we don't protect ourselves," the Minister for Family and Basic Services, Krista Kiuru, said.