Media: OCU "hierarch" Mikhail Zinkevich diagnosed with coronavirus

OCU "hierarch" Mikhail Zinkevich. Photo: vesti.ua

OCU "hierarch" Mikhail Zinkevich. Photo: vesti.ua

"Metropolitan" Mikhail Zinkevich has been diagnosed with coronavirus, reports “Religiyna Pravda” on Tuesday, September 15, 2020, citing information from its own sources close to the "hierarch" of the OCU.

“Vladyka Mikhail has been in hospital on an oxygen mask for a week. The temperature is constantly going up and down,” the message says.

Earlier, at the monument to Taras Shevchenko in Lutsk, Mikhail Zinkevich said that love for the giants of the spirit of Ukraine can save you from the coronavirus disease.

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