“I was wrong. I should have looked at the situation more carefully,” said Marin in a television interview with public broadcaster Yale on Wednesday night.
Marin said she decided not to cut her night short on Saturday after being told she had been exposed to the coronavirus the day before in a crowded nightclub posted on Facebook by Finnish gossip magazine. Afterwards. Wrote after publishing a photo.
Economic Affairs Minister Mika Lintila attended a floorball match between Finland and Latvia on Sunday after he was advised to avoid contact with others, Helsingin Sanomat newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Evening paper Ilta-Sanomat reported on Tuesday that Defense Minister Antti Kaikonen went to a dinner party on Saturday, while Finance Minister Annika Sarikko and Science and Culture Minister Antti Kurvinen canceled their attendance at the same event to avoid contact .
The three ministers were exposed on Friday at a meeting of Foreign Minister Pekka Havisto, who tested positive for Covid-19 on Saturday.
Marin said she was at a restaurant when she received a call from her secretary of state telling her about the exposure.
“He said the ministers would not be isolated because they have all been vaccinated twice,” Marin wrote on Facebook, explaining why he continued to socialise.
The prime minister’s office later said it had sent two text messages to exposed ministers on Saturday, recommending that they avoid contact with other people.
Marin said she had left her official phone at home and instead relied on coworkers to access her personal phone.
Marin has since conducted two Covid-19 tests which were negative. Lintila and Kaikonen have also tested negative.