Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

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Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare is a public administration that is part of the pulse of the water sector. Here we bring together everything it publishes on Smart Water Magazine: its news, its blogs and the events it takes part in.

Coronavirus detected in the wastewater of several Finnish cities in August

Coronavirus has been detected in the wastewater of several cities in the wastewater monitoring carried out by THL in August. The virus has particularly been found in wastewater samples collected from sewage treatment plants in Viikinmäki in Helsinki, Suomenoja in Espoo and Kakolanmäki in Turku. In addition, individual samples collected in Tampere, Rauma and Vaasa […]

Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare · 21 Aug 2020

4 Jun 2020

Traces of coronavirus detected in Finland’s Helsinki and Turku wastewater

The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)’s waste water study found coronavirus in waste water in Helsinki and Turku but no indications of the virus in samples collected in Tampere, Kuopio and Oulu. In April and May, THL’s water microbiology laboratory in Kuopio introduced a testing method which can be used to detect the quantity […]