Infectiologist: There will be no spread of infection from Kyiv Lavra

Professor Olga Golubovskaya. Photo: Vesti

There will be no spread of infection from the Holy Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, said  the leading Ukrainian infectious diseases doctor, Professor, Doctor of Medical Sciences, head of the Department for Infectious Diseases of the A.A. Bogomolets National Medical University Olga Golubovskaya in the programme "HARD Vlashchenko" on April 17, 2020.

“Today I’m calm,” said the representative of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, commenting on the possibility of the spread of the coronavirus infection from the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. “The situation is already clear in the Lavra, it is already closed, there will be no spread of the disease from there.”

According to Golubovskaya, the Ministry of Health will do everything to “so that the people who are there recover calmly and normally. We will observe and monitor them, and everything will be fine”.

As reported, Metropolitan Pavel of Vyshgorod and Chernobyl and six monks and novices of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, who were treated in the capital’s hospitals, feel much better and return to the monastery.

Read also

Ukraine now allows matronymics alongside patronymics

Ukrainian legislation has allowed people to change their patronymic since 2021, including replacing the father's name with the mother's name.

Kharkiv's gay community announces LGBT march

At the pride march in Kharkiv, participants will demand the legalization of same-sex marriages in Ukraine.

Ukrainians criticize official who called pilgrimage to Pochaiv "horrifying"

Threads users did not support the head of the "Ancient Kyiv" Reserve, Roman Malenkov, who called the UOC pilgrimage "a horrifying horror."

Metropolitan Alexiy of Voznesensk consecrates chapel in Velyka Solona

The ruling bishop of the Voznesensk Eparchy performed the consecration of the Chapel of the Holy Martyrs Faith, Hope, Love, and their mother Sophia.

UOC draws 7 times more worshippers than OCU in Kerstentsi on Transfiguration

More than 300 faithful attended the UOC parish’s patronal feast in Kerstentsi.

Sybiha invites Putin to take Dmitry Donskoy’s place in sarcophagus

Ukraine’s foreign minister commented on reports that part of the relics of Holy Prince Dmitry Donskoy could be sent to Russian troops.