Fear about coronavirus could hurt Arctic tourism
The first confirmed Arctic case was in a Chinese tourist in Finland. Thousands more Chinese tourists around the Arctic could be stranded as flights are canceled.
A 32-year-old women from Wuhan in China was hunting the northern lights among other Chinese tourists in Saariselkä when she last Sunday began to show symptoms. Two days later, she was taken to the regional hospital in Rovaniemi and on Thursday, Finland’s National Institute for Health and Welfare confirmed the coronavirus.
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