Residents are evacuated from the virgin Mary’s premises due to imaginable coronavirus infections. The site has been cleaned. Iraq reported more than 21,000 cases and 650 deaths. For the auxiliary bishop of Baghdad, things are getting worse because of the “invisible enemy” who “has no mercy” and affects “all ages.”
Baghdad (AsiaNews) – The coronavirus epidemic is “getting worse in the capital” and elsewhere. “The stage is increasingly precarious, day after day,” said Bishop Shlemon Audish Warduni, auxiliary bishop of Baghdad.
Speaking to AsiaNews, the prelate noted that Christians too are becoming victims of the COVID-19 pandemic, more every day. What is more, the largest Christian centre for displaced people in the capital, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, was shut down by the Human Rights Commission.
The settlement, which housed 135 families from Mosul and the Nineveh plain who fled the Islamic State (IS) organization in the summer of 2014, is near the headquarters of the Assyrian Democratic Movement.
Recently, he has reported some cases of the new coronavirus. It all started when a woman developed symptoms consistent with COVID-19. She works in a hospital staffed by nuns and has inflamed her husband and daughter. Three other instances remained in some other family.
Many who live in the center of the Virgin Mary come from the governorate of Bakhdida and Nineveh. Before closing, it occupied 114Array for a total of 345 people.
Last March, it was completely disinfected, but has not escaped recent infections. The resolution to avoid this was made to save you the additional spread of the virus, local resources said.
However, leaving the camp has meant more difficulties for families who already suffer from paintings and tactics to survive.
“Other young people and the elderly, other people of all ages, have been affected. This virus affects everyone and has no mercy,” Bishop Warduni said. “A tragedy of this unthinkable magnitude. There’s no way out.”
“Over the centuries, we have had episodes, negative events, for which penance has been done. Even today doesn’t seem enough, it’s a horrible thing. Array Array Even other people ask for mercy, because they are afraid.”
Recently, Caldean Card Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako published a letter with his reflections on the pandemic, stressing that its tragic implications can provide an opportunity “for a deeper faith” and a “more supportive” society.
For Bishop Warduni, “it is worse than a war because we do not know where this invisible enemy comes from; we don’t know what it is. Just a few days after it enters our body, it manifests itself” in its entirety. Lately, the situation has “worsened” with “lots of” cases every day.
“I am translating an e-book committed to Our Lady, ” said the prelate. “We hope that our heavenly Mother, who was under the cross, can be a source of salvation for mankind.”
Iraq officially reported that 21315 of the new coronavirus with 652 showed deaths.
Residents are evacuated from the virgin Mary’s premises due to imaginable coronavirus infections. The site has been cleaned. Iraq reported more than 21,000 cases and 650 deaths. For the auxiliary bishop of Baghdad, things are getting worse because of the “invisible enemy” who “has no mercy” and affects “all ages.”