MOSCOW, 13 APR – RIA Novosti. Monk of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, the 73-year-old Archimandrite Nektarios (Kovalenko) died Sunday from a severe form of pneumonia and chronic diseases, with the coronavirus he has not revealed, said on Monday the website of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
Archimandrite Nektarios monastery was revived from the first days of its opening in 1988.
“the hospital that treated the father Nectarios, said that he had a lot of chronic diseases, and in severe form of pneumonia and two samples of the coronavirus he did not confirm the presence of infection”, – stated in the message.
Earlier on Monday, the mayor of Kiev Vitali Klitschko said that the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra is closed on quarantine because of an outbreak of coronavirus COVID-19, only there was more than 90 cases, 63 of them – in the past day.
According to Klitschko, in Lavra will be directed to mobile x-rays and the medical team for conducting the PCR tests for the coronavirus. The mayor urged law enforcement agencies to monitor compliance with the decision to close the monastery on quarantine.
According to the latest data of the Ministry of health of Ukraine, the country laboratory confirmed more than 3.1 thousand cases of infection with mers, including 93 deaths, 97 people have recovered. In Kiev, recorded 495 cases of the coronavirus, including infected in the last day, six physicians. World health organization March 11 announced the outbreak of a new coronavirus infection COVID-19 pandemic. According to the latest who data, the world recorded almost 1.7 million infections, more than 105 thousand people died.
