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| - Finland's prime minister will work remotely until further notice, officials announced on Thursday, after the country's new coronavirus app warned that she may have been exposed. Sanna Marin, the 34-year-old head of government, "will be tested for Covid-19," her office said in a statement. "She is asymptomatic and feeling fine." Finland launched its coronavirus tracing app on September 1, allowing smartphone users to receive an alert when they have been in close contact with someone who tested positive for the coronavirus. The app has since been downloaded approximately 1.8 million times, equal to one-third of Finland's 5.5 million population. On Thursday, Marin's government agreed to relax Finland's travel restrictions and allow visitors from Germany, Sweden, Norway and other EU states with fewer than 25 new cases per 100,000 population in the last fortnight. Finland's tight rules currently ban arrivals from all but a handful of EU countries. The government has come under heavy pressure to ease travel restrictions to help businesses in Lapland, an area hugely reliant on tourism during the Christmas season. sgk/jll/tgb/ach
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