Public celebration of Masses to resume after Luzon quarantine

MANILA: The public celebration of Masses in churches will most likely resume once the enhanced community quarantine ends, an official of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) said.

“If quarantine protocols are lifted and the social and physical distancing as well, then most probably public celebration of liturgies will resume in churches,” said Fr. Jerome Secillano, Executive Secretary of the CBCP’s Permanent Committee on Public Affairs.

“The only reason for the online celebration of Masses is the church’s compliance with health protocols,” he added.

As the government imposed enhanced community quarantine, Christian churches across the country are also holding online Masses and services in a bid to contain the rapid spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).

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Meanwhile, the World Health Organisation (WHO) cautioned Philippine authorities on Tuesday to consider the “epidemiological situation” should it decide to lift the Luzon lockdown as scheduled on Easter Sunday, especially that it does not see the coronavirus threat to go away in at least a month.

WHO Western Pacific regional director Takeshi Kasai said that just as the government made careful considerations in imposing the lockdown on Luzon two weeks ago, the same should be done if it would proceed with reopening the island.

“Obviously, this measure can’t continue forever. At some point, the government needs to think [about] when to lift this measure. When you do that, we have to make careful considerations of the epidemiological situation and impact of the lockdown,” Kasai told reporters in a virtual press briefing.

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“We may have to peel one by one and not just immediately lift those public health measures which were bundled with the lockdown to balance and control the disease and to bring back the society back to normal,” he said.

Kasai stressed that for the lockdown to be effective, authorities should continue to find, isolate and treat the positive cases, and trace and place on quarantine their contacts who may have been infected.

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