{"id":448112,"date":"2020-03-27T18:49:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T18:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=448112"},"modified":"2020-03-27T19:11:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T19:11:25","slug":"how-does-coronavirus-spread-churches-can-easily-become-contagion-epicentre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/how-does-coronavirus-spread-churches-can-easily-become-contagion-epicentre\/","title":{"rendered":"How does coronavirus spread? Churches can easily become a contagion epicentre"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>While WHO highly recommends to avoid crowded places as much as possible during this period, and while several countries have reported churches as the focal point of their major coronavirus outbreaks, Moldovan churches still oppose the Governments quarantine measures and continue to encourage people to attend their religious ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>Today, another 22 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded in Moldova. That means a total of 199 cases. Prime minister Ion Chicu announced in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privesc.eu\/arhiva\/90472\/Declaratii-dupa-sedinta-Centrului-Unic-de-Comanda-de-gestionare-a-crizei-provocate-de-virusul-COVID-19\">press conference<\/a>, after the meeting of the Single Command Center for Crisis Management Caused by COVID-19 Virus, that 20 people were confirmed as being infected after returning from a\u00a0trip to Poceaev Lavra &#8211;\u00a0 a monastery from Ukraine. Among them are two priests who tested positive.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The Ministry of Internal Affairs gave clear instructions not to allow religious services to be conducted with the parishioners participation. If these ceremonies take place, sanctions provided by the law will be applied,\u201d<\/em> declared the head of the Executive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Last weekend, churches were still allowed to conduct open space ceremonies in compliance with all precaution rules. The process of religious services was supervised by the police. Policemen reported, over the weekend,\u00a0that out of 1062 churches registered in Moldova, 382 churches respected the rules and conducted the services outside and 305 religious institutions either stopped the activity or the ceremonies took place without parishioners. The rest of them simply ignored all precautionary measures and continued to pretend that there is no pandemic situation in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook page of a religious institution from Chisinau posted several images from the <em>Holy Liturgy<\/em>, where both people and priests wore protective masks. The service took place outside and those present were staying at a distance from each other. Still, <span style=\"color: #993300\">how efficient are these measures if the Eucharist provides using the same spoon by all present people, as per Eastern Orthodox Church traditions?<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_448113\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-448113\" class=\"size-full wp-image-448113\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/church1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/church1.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/church1-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/church1-400x711.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-448113\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Facebook| St. Dumitru Church in Chisinau<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>&#8220;I noticed that, unfortunately, the church servants do not show respect first of all to the doctors\u00a0who repair the errors of the whole society. I very much hope that none of those priests will become infected and reach the medical institutions, because our doctors will help them, but not using the same &#8216;spoon&#8217; for all,&#8221;<\/em> declared Ion Chicu.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_448115\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-448115\" class=\"wp-image-448115 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/biserica3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/biserica3.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/biserica3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/biserica3-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/biserica3-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-448115\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Facebook| St. Dumitru Church in Chisinau<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Earlier, on March 13, the Moldovan authorities announced that all religious ceremonies have to be ceased for a period of 14 days. However, the <strong>Moldovan Orthodox Church<\/strong> representatives encouraged the religious institutions from all over the country to continue their activity,\u00a0defying any rules imposed. No enforcing measures were taken by authorities, but only mentioning about the sanctions application.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, there is one more important matter to be questioned: <span style=\"color: #993300\">how many epicentres of coronavirus outbreaks have already been created by the Moldovan churches and how many will they still create until understanding that the situation is more than critical?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Facebook| St. Dumitru Church in Chisinau<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>While WHO highly recommends to avoid crowded places as much as possible during this period, and while several countries have reported churches as the focal point of their major coronavirus outbreaks, Moldovan churches still oppose the Governments quarantine measures and continue to encourage people to attend their religious ceremonies. Today, another 22 new cases of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":448114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[657,609,80,35,27,204,608],"class_list":["post-448112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-church","tag-coronavirus","tag-government","tag-important","tag-moldova","tag-orthodox","tag-pandemic"],"content_social_share":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>While WHO highly recommends to avoid crowded places as much as possible during this period, and while several countries have reported churches as the focal point of their major coronavirus outbreaks, Moldovan churches still oppose the Governments quarantine measures and continue to encourage people to attend their religious ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>Today, another 22 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded in Moldova. That means a total of 199 cases. Prime minister Ion Chicu announced in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privesc.eu\/arhiva\/90472\/Declaratii-dupa-sedinta-Centrului-Unic-de-Comanda-de-gestionare-a-crizei-provocate-de-virusul-COVID-19\">press conference<\/a>, after the meeting of the Single Command Center for Crisis Management Caused by COVID-19 Virus, that 20 people were confirmed as being infected after returning from a\u00a0trip to Poceaev Lavra &#8211;\u00a0 a monastery from Ukraine. Among them are two priests who tested positive.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The Ministry of Internal Affairs gave clear instructions not to allow religious services to be conducted with the parishioners participation. If these ceremonies take place, sanctions provided by the law will be applied,\u201d<\/em> declared the head of the Executive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Last weekend, churches were still allowed to conduct open space ceremonies in compliance with all precaution rules. The process of religious services was supervised by the police. Policemen reported, over the weekend,\u00a0that out of 1062 churches registered in Moldova, 382 churches respected the rules and conducted the services outside and 305 religious institutions either stopped the activity or the ceremonies took place without parishioners. The rest of them simply ignored all precautionary measures and continued to pretend that there is no pandemic situation in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook page of a religious institution from Chisinau posted several images from the <em>Holy Liturgy<\/em>, where both people and priests wore protective masks. The service took place outside and those present were staying at a distance from each other. Still, <span style=\"color: #993300\">how efficient are these measures if the Eucharist provides using the same spoon by all present people, as per Eastern Orthodox Church traditions?<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_448113\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-448113\" class=\"size-full wp-image-448113\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/church1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/church1.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/church1-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/church1-400x711.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-448113\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Facebook| St. Dumitru Church in Chisinau<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>&#8220;I noticed that, unfortunately, the church servants do not show respect first of all to the doctors\u00a0who repair the errors of the whole society. I very much hope that none of those priests will become infected and reach the medical institutions, because our doctors will help them, but not using the same &#8216;spoon&#8217; for all,&#8221;<\/em> declared Ion Chicu.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_448115\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-448115\" class=\"wp-image-448115 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/biserica3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/biserica3.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/biserica3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/biserica3-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/03\/biserica3-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-448115\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Facebook| St. Dumitru Church in Chisinau<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Earlier, on March 13, the Moldovan authorities announced that all religious ceremonies have to be ceased for a period of 14 days. However, the <strong>Moldovan Orthodox Church<\/strong> representatives encouraged the religious institutions from all over the country to continue their activity,\u00a0defying any rules imposed. No enforcing measures were taken by authorities, but only mentioning about the sanctions application.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, there is one more important matter to be questioned: <span style=\"color: #993300\">how many epicentres of coronavirus outbreaks have already been created by the Moldovan churches and how many will they still create until understanding that the situation is more than critical?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Facebook| St. Dumitru Church in Chisinau<\/p>\n<div class='heateorSssClear'><\/div><div  class='heateor_sss_sharing_container heateor_sss_horizontal_sharing' data-heateor-sss-href='https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/how-does-coronavirus-spread-churches-can-easily-become-contagion-epicentre\/' data-heateor-sss-no-counts=\"1\"><div class='heateor_sss_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\" ><\/div><div class=\"heateor_sss_sharing_ul\"><a aria-label=\"Facebook\" class=\"heateor_sss_facebook\" 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