Finland eases entry restrictions for EU’s green list

The government on Tuesday decided to ease restrictions for residents of the countries and regions on the EU’s green list and open the Vainikkala border crossing point to passenger traffic from 18 October, said the Ministry of the Interior in a press release.

Other restrictions on entry at external borders will be extended until 7 November.

However, people may still enter Finland from all countries upon presenting an approved certificate of a full course of vaccination.

Countries on the EU’s green list mean countries with a sufficiently good epidemiological situation for which the Council of the European Union has decided to allow free travel to the EU.

Finland has previously applied a limit value of 25 (a maximum of 25 cases per 100,000 persons during the previous two weeks) to these countries as the limit for permitted traffic.

With this removal of the limit value, restrictions will be lifted for residents of Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Chile, Jordan, Qatar, Rwanda, Singapore, South Korea, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates and Uruguay in traffic arriving in Finland from these countries.

Restrictions have already been lifted for residents of Hong Kong, Kuwait, Macao, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia and Taiwan.