Archpriest Dimitry Smirnov was hospitalized with suspected new coronavirus. About it reports “Interfax” with reference to the interlocutor from an environment of a priest.
According to the interlocutor of the Agency, the Smirnov condition doctors estimate as stable. The source noted that recently the 69-year-old priest underwent surgery, he is also at risk according to age.
How to write “Rambler” among people infected with coronavirus in the capital region were the priests of the temples and monasteries. Earlier in the hospital were Archpriest Alexander Shargunov, Vladislav Sveshnikov and Nikolai Krechetov.
Earlier in the week it became known about death from the coronavirus of the Metropolitan, honorary rector of the Moscow Church of the exaltation of the Holy cross Iona (Karpukhin). Died later the chief doctor of the Holy Trinity St. Sergius Lavra, Archimandrite Tikhon (badgers) and a Deacon of the Moscow Danilov monastery Archimandrite Demetrios (Nikolaev).