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

18 April 2020 19:57
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Professor Olga Golubovskaya. Photo: Vesti Professor Olga Golubovskaya. Photo: Vesti

Leading infectious disease specialist of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine Olga Golubovskaya commented on the situation with the coronavirus in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.

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.

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