Finland has warned the Covid-19 pandemic is expanding again more rapidly in the country, after several months of relative calm, and is heading in an “alarming” direction.

The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health said several signs could be seen of the epidemic speeding up again in the country.

“The rise in incidence rate, rising share of positive cases among all samples, increasing difficulties in tracing sources of infection and chains of infections becoming more common all anticipate a transition to an accelerating phase in the epidemic,” it said in a statement.