Sanna Marin | COVID-19
Finland PM Sanna Marin caught clubbing despite COVID-19 exposure, apologises
Helsinki/IBNS: Finland Prime Minister Sanna Marin courted a row after she was spotted clubbing despite coming in contact with a coronavirus positive patient.
Marin, 36, came in contact with her minister Pekka Haavisto, who was infected with the virus.
She came under the scanner after her photos of her partying on Saturday night until 4 in the morning were published by a gossip magazine.
Justifying her going out in public, the Prime Minister said in a Facebook post that she was spending some "free time" with her husband on the Independence Day weekend in Helsinki.
Marin said she knew at that point of time that fully vaccinated people need not have to be quarantined coming in contact with COVID-19 patients.
She said, "On Saturday evening my secretary of state called me on the parliament's work phone and told me about the corona infection by Minister Pekka Haavisto.
"At the same time, he said that there will be no special measures on the matter and no ministers will be quarantined because everyone has two vaccines and full vaccine protection."
Marin added that she was later informed by another official that she needed to be isolated and apply for a COVID-19 test.
"I received this information on Sunday and immediately applied for a test. The result was negative," she said in the post and added, "I should have used better judgment on Saturday night... I'm really sorry for not understanding that I needed to do that."
Finland has recorded over 196,000 COVID-19 cases so far with eight cases related to the new variant 'Omicron'.
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