The COVID-19 recommendations of the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare related to health security in education, public events and others are no longer in force. The temporary sections of the Communicable Diseases Act that governed the recommendations also ceased to apply on 30 June 2022. The sections on hygiene measures and conditions for the use of facilities consisted of the obligation to provide opportunities for hand washing and sufficient room for physical distancing.
Good hygiene measures can be continued. In its circular (22 June 2022), the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health recommends that operators continue to clean facilities and surfaces and that customers and participants are given opportunities to wash or sanitise their hands. It is recommended that operators organise their operations in such a way that customers can arrive at and attend events in an uncrowded way and that the risk of infection is kept to a minimum.
The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health encourages people to take into account the up-to-date guidelines of the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) on the prevention of COVID-19 infections. The Institute has issued general instructions on hygiene and on ventilation to prevent infections while the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health has issued instructions on cleaning procedures.
In the 2022–2023 academic year, early childhood education and care, pre-primary education, primary and lower secondary education, general upper secondary education, vocational education and training, higher education, liberal adult education and basic education in the arts will all be provided in accordance with the legislation applicable in normal conditions. This means that the temporary legislative amendments laid down and in force during the academic years of 2020–2021 and 2021–2022 due to COVID-19 are no longer in force.
