This is reported by Yle with reference to the Department of Health and Social Development THL.

More than half of the new infections, 329, occur in the Helsinki and Uusimaa districts.

Over the past two weeks, 4905 cases of COVID-19 have been recorded, which is 1,953 more cases than in the previous 14 days.

A total of 982 people have died from the coronavirus in Finland.

On July 20, Mika Salminen, a spokesman for the National Institute for Health and Social Development, announced that the fourth wave of coronavirus had begun in Finland.