Online banking may not display account and card transaction information.

Finland's National Cyber Security Centre warns that many email servers may have already been compromised.

The regulation would mean people could only exercise outdoors with members of their own household, for example.

Some experts believe that new government-imposed restrictions may cut coronavirus infections by half.

President Sauli Niinistö said delaying the elections from April to June will lower risks posed by the coronavirus.

Quick tests are particularly useful in remote areas far from laboratories, according to an expert.

The closure order, which affects many areas across Finland, will go into force on Tuesday 9 March.

As they seek funding, the researchers say more vaccines are needed to combat new variants of the contagious virus.

The office had received seven complaints by Monday morning, with more pending.

Restrictions depend on whether a region is in the baseline, accelerating or community transmission phase of the epidemic.

UN Women Finland says physical violence and online harassment of women have increased alarmingly during the pandemic.

Most morning papers continue to focus on issues tied to government measures to deal with the coronavirus epidemic.

While overall car sales dipped in early 2021, sales of new electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids rose by 57 percent.

The Justice Ministry said that the THL prognosis was among the factors in the decision to postpone municipal elections.

The Finnish president said the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is "lagging behind" on vaccine approval.

Customers of one of Finland's biggest banks won't be able to use cards, online banking or MobilePay for most of Sunday.

The justice minister cited a THL prediction that daily new cases could exceed 11,000 by April before declining in May.

Two of Finland's biggest construction firms have begun requiring workers to wear masks whenever feasible.

According to newspaper Iltalehti, a new timetable for April's elections would be announced on Saturday.

"We are a closed island community. It makes us fragile," Åland's health director noted.

In the 1950s Finns ate an average of 25kg of meat per year, but nowadays the annual amount has ballooned to about 80kg.

The leader of a far-right group exchanged messages with a police sergeant about a potential confrontation with immigrants.

The FMI has issued warnings for poor driving conditions across most of the country on Saturday.

The decrees allowing for changes to the Emergency Powers Act will move to Parliament for approval.

Eastern Finland Police said there was no evidence of any criminal act in the death of a man in Kotka last September.

Events in Kuopio and Espoo are among the first to be pushed back over pandemic fears.

A survey by the Talentia social workers' union also found that 95 percent report experiencing psychological stress.

Russian authorities made the offer during a phone call between the former president and a Russian politician.

Coronavirus is the top story in the papers as they look at test and trace plans and debate who should get jabs first.

Best known as founder of the populist Finns Party, Timo Soini says he will step down from municipal politics.