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HELSINKI (Reuters) - While many countries struggle with a second wave of the coronavirus, Finland has halted a rise in new infections at Europe’s lowest level, helped by the fact that for Finns social distancing comes naturally.
While a remote Nordic location and one of Europe’s lowest population densities play in its favour in the fight against COVID-19, it helps that many Finns like personal space and solitude.
“Maybe the Finnish personal comfort zone is a bit wider than in some other European countries. We’d like to keep people a metre or more away or we start feeling uncomfortable,” said Mika Salminen, director at Finland’s public health authority THL.
While many countries struggle with a second wave of the coronavirus, Finland has halted a rise in new infections at Europe's lowest level, helped by the fact that for Finns social distancing comes naturally.
While many countries struggle with a second wave of the coronavirus, Finland has halted a rise in new infections at Europe's lowest level, helped by the fact that for Finns social distancing comes naturally.