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There was no increase in the cases of coronavirus infection following the celebration of Pascha in Georgia, where the churches remained open though observing the necessary sanitary standards, according to a leading infectious diseases expert in Tbilisi.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the recommendation of the government, the Church itself has taken a very correct and good position and, in fact, we quietly passed through the period that could have been the basis for the growth of the epidemic,\u201d said Tengiz Tsertsvadze, the Director of the Tbilisi Infectious Diseases Hospital, on \u201cThere has been no increase in the number of infections due to religious holidays,\u201d the expert said. <\/p>\n He also stressed that all the main clusters of coronavirus infections have been identified and localized in Georgia to date, thanks to the effective work of epidemiologists and doctors.<\/p>\n There has been no increase in the number of infections due to religious holidays<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Chief Sanitary Doctor of Ukraine<\/a>, Deputy Minister of Health Viktor Lyashko reported the same about Pascha in Ukraine, despite media attempts to create a hysteria surrounding the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church.<\/p>\n \u201cFor believers, spiritual food is just as important and necessary as physical food; therefore, it is impossible to close the doors of the churches, and they will be open for those who want to come to Church, to receive God\u2019s grace and be spiritually strengthened,\u201d His Holiness Catholics-Patriarch Ilia II<\/a> said in the run-up to Pascha.<\/p>\n \u201cGiven the current situation, I would like to address you, our spiritual children, and give you the following advice: Follow the appropriate instructions; observe the established distance while near to other people, including in church or in the church yard; during the Divine Liturgy (and other services), only clergymen should remain in the church, while a limited number of parishioners are allowed to join them in large cathedrals, though it is generally recommended that parishioners remain in the church yard,\u201d the Patriarch\u2019s statement continued. There was no increase in the cases of coronavirus infection following the celebration of Pascha in Georgia, where the churches remained open though observing the necessary sanitary standards, according to a leading infectious diseases expert in Tbilisi. \u201cAt the recommendation of the government, the Church itself has taken a very correct and good position and, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[133,142,5,130,144,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftist-hypocrisy","category-leftist-tyranny","category-orthodox-christianity","category-orthodox-church","category-orthodox-worship","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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