Coronavirus Mara complains about the incidence threshold for entry to the Chancellor of Justice

Tourism and restaurant industry the association MaRa complains to the Chancellor of Justice about the incidence thresholds for entry. The organization considers that the recent policy sets the incidence rate for free entry at 25, which is too tense considering Finland’s own disease situation and does not comply with the Communicable Diseases Act.

Last week, the government decided that countries with a maximum incidence of 25 can enter Finland without the travel restrictions provided for in the Communicable Diseases Act. The list of these countries includes, for example, Indonesia, India, China, New Zealand and parts of northern Norway.

MaRaa rubs the mismatch between the incidence thresholds and the situation in Finland. At the time of the decision, the two-week incidence of the coronavirus in one hundred thousand inhabitants was 140 in Finland.

Parliamentary The Committee on Social Affairs and Health has considered that the incidence threshold for Finland’s entry can be set lower than Finland’s incidence rate, but the disparity should not be significant. MaRa considers the mismatch between incidences 25 and 140 to be significant.

The Department of Health and Welfare (THL), for example, also proposed an incidence limit of 50 when making the entry policy.

MaRa is filing a complaint on behalf of its member companies representing the tourism industry.

“Tourism companies, especially hotels dependent on foreign customers, program service companies and international congresses, have been in great difficulties throughout the corona and the difficulties continue. International tourism is starting to grow as vaccine coverage grows. Finland cannot maintain unjustifiably strict travel restrictions,” MaRan CEO Timo Lappi notes in the release.

MaRa has also repeatedly complained to the Chancellor of Justice about regional restaurant restrictions that it has not found necessary or proportionate.