HELSINKI : While many countries struggle with a second wave of the coronavirus, Finland has halted a rise in new infections at Europe's lowest level, helped by the fact that for Finns social distancing comes naturally.While a remote Nordic location and one of Europe's lowest population densities play in its favour in the fight against COVID-19, it helps that many Finns like personal space and solitude."Maybe the Finnish personal comfort zone is a bit wider than in some other European countries.
We'd like to keep people a metre or more away or we start feeling uncomfortable," said Mika Salminen, director at Finland's public health authority THL.On Sunday, Finland's 14-day cumulative number of COVID-19 cases per 100,000 inhabitants stood at.