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    Drive-by blessings in Covid-19 hit Philippines

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    Drive-by blessings in Covid-19 hit Philippines

    Priests delivered blessings marking Palm Sunday amid the coronavirus outbreak


    Published:  April 05, 2020 11:30 AFP  and  Compiled by Christian Borbon, Digital Content Editor

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    Manila: Priests delivered blessings from the back of trucks and motorised tricycles in the Philippine Sunday, adapting the deeply Catholic nation's traditions to the battle against the coronavirus pandemic. Image Credit: Reuters
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    Locals lined up in front of their homes in a district of Manila, which is entering its fourth week of a lockdown that has brought the frenetic metropolis nearly to a halt. Image Credit: Reuters
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    The priests made signs of the cross as they rolled past waving residents marking Palm Sunday, the start of the week that culminates with the observance of Easter. Image Credit: AP
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    "This celebration will continue despite the spread of the virus," said Bong Sosa, who attended wearing a mask crafted from a water cooler bottle. Image Credit: Reuters
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    The blessings come as the Philippines recorded a total of 144 deaths and 3,094 confirmed virus cases, numbers that are expected to keep rising as the nation ramps up testing. Image Credit: AFP
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    The quarantine that has shuttered schools and businesses and halted all social and religious events across most of the nation will likely be extended beyond mid-April, authorities have said. Image Credit: Reuters
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    Easter is a major holiday in the Philippines when millions typically return to their family homes outside the capital, but heavy restrictions on movement will disrupt those trips this year. Image Credit: AP
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    Bans on large public events will also mean that typically thronged churches will be empty save for priests performing mass that will be live-streamed into tens of millions of homes. Image Credit: REUTERS
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    Residents wave plants as a Catholic priest holding a Monstrance with the Sacred Host rides a pick-up truck around villages during a new Palm Sunday ritual to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in Manila, Philippines. Image Credit: AP
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    Filipino Catholics wearing protective masks hold palm fronds and other plants outside their homes as they wait for the blessing of a priest roaming around neighbourhoods to celebrate Palm Sunday amid the lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Manila, Philippines. Image Credit: Reuters
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    Roman Catholic priest Pepe Quitorio riding on a tricycle and wearing a face mask blesses the faithfuls holding coconut leaves during Palm Sunday event in Borongan town, Eastern Samar province. Image Credit: AFP
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    Filipino Catholics wearing protective masks hold palm fronds and other plants outside their homes as they wait for the blessing of a priest roaming around neighbourhoods to celebrate Palm Sunday amid the lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Manila, Philippines. Image Credit: Reuters
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    Church authorities have asked the catholic faithfuls not to go to churches for the Palm Sunday blessing, but instead to stay in front of their houses as priests will go around their communities for the blessing, to observe social distancing as part of the government efforts to combat COVID 19 pandemic. Image Credit: AFP
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    Filipino Catholics wearing protective masks hold palm fronds outside their homes as they wait for the blessing of a priest roaming around neighbourhoods to celebrate Palm Sunday. Image Credit: Reuters
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    Roman Catholic priest Pepe Quitorio riding on a tricycle and wearing a face mask blesses the faithfuls holding coconut leaves during Palm Sunday event in Borongan town, Eastern Samar, Philippines. Image Credit: AFP

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