Highest incidence rate in southwestern region, authorities urge continuing precautions
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A street scene in central Turku, April 2021.
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The incidence rate in the Southwest Finland region rose to the highest in the country on Wednesday, registering a reported 106.4 per 100,000 residents, surpassing the region of Uusimaa, where it was 106.3 per 100,000. On Thursday those figures were 101.7 for Southwest Finland and 100.5 for Uusimaa, according to the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL).
As of Thursday, the national rate was 60.7 per 100,000 residents.
Check a range of regional, national and international Covid data at Yle s dashboard.
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Finnish nurse squeezes extra vaccine doses with air-bubble technique By Essi Lehto
Training nurse Roos poses for a picture in Helsinki
HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finnish nurse Sari Roos is teaching her colleagues a vaccination technique that enables her to squeeze more doses out of COVID-19 vaccine vials, helping to stretch scarce supplies and ensure more people can be inoculated.
Her air-bubble trick makes it possible to extract an elusive seventh dose from vials of the vaccine from Pfizer – one more than the six approved by Europe’s health regulator that can normally only be drawn with a special needle and syringe.
Finnish nurse uses air-bubble technique to squeeze out COVID-19 vaccine doses
Her air-bubble trick makes it possible to extract an elusive seventh dose from vials of the vaccine from Pfizer - one more than the six approved by Europe s health regulator that can normally only be drawn with a special needle and syringe
Reuters | April 7, 2021 | Updated 15:39 IST
Finnish nurse Sari Roos is teaching her colleagues a vaccination technique that enables her to squeeze more doses out of COVID-19 vaccine vials, helping to stretch scarce supplies and ensure more people can be inoculated.
Her air-bubble trick makes it possible to extract an elusive seventh dose from vials of the vaccine from Pfizer - one more than the six approved by Europe s health regulator that can normally only be drawn with a special needle and syringe.