Finland is to allow plane arrivals, from Estonia, from the beginning of next week, for the purpose of labor commuting. Arrival by sea is still subject to the same current coronavirus travel regime, which the Finnish government has extended to the end of June.
From Monday, those arriving from Estonia by plane will be exempt from the quarantine requirement, the Estonian foreign ministry’s undersecretary, Märt Volmer, stated.
Some details still need to be ironed out, Volmer added, with discussions needed with the Finnish authorities to ascertain what their primary concerns are.
Finland’s own 14-day rate was just under 50 as of last Friday, according to the Estonian foreign ministry. Only a handful of countries at that time had a 14-day rate which fell below Finland’s maximum of 25 per 100,000, one of which was Iceland – whose travelers Finland have indeed opened their borders to.
Estonia’s limit is set at 150 per 100,000, which means that as of last Friday, more European nations were on the “green” listing than weren’t, for the first time this yr.
Finland is one of six nations which the European Commission warned after the unilateral reinstallation of its border controls in February, amid rising coronavirus rates Europe-wide. Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, and Sweden were the other 5.
