COVID-19 Update: Palm Sunday Comes

Today is Palm Sunday. With the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic in full spread, Catholics begin the Holy Week with the blessing of palm branches to remember Jesus Christ entering the city of David, Jerusalem. It's in Mt 21 and Mk 11.

"Hosanna!

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!"

Obviously people can't attend Mass in churches because of social distancing. But priests are going to go around with holy water to bless palm branches without physical contact. I am wondering about the execution. We have to be careful about any activity that solicits some kind of social interaction.

There is a small guarded bit of good news for Filipinos who are in our 3rd week of quarantine. The latest number of cases moved up to 3,094 today. It took 5 days for this number to double. Most countries fighting this virus are suffering under a 3 day doubling of their cases. It is good news that we seem to be "capping" the spread of the virus here in the Philippines. We can only confirm this if we test a lot of people. We should begin testing everyone with symptoms now.

The United States reaches 275,000 cases of the corona virus. They have the biggest number of cases in the world. The world has a total of 1 Million cases now.

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