Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Honduran Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez said on Sunday that in Honduras it has been forgotten that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus “is highly contagious” and called “irresponsible” young people who do not take precautionary measures against the pathogen for do not infect your parents and grandparents.
“This Honduras of ours seems to have already forgotten that this covid-19 is highly contagious and today how many irresponsible children have to cry that they infected their parents or grandparents for irresponsible,” Rodriguez stressed in a homily held at the Minor Basilica of Suyapa.
According to the latest data from the National Risk Management System (Sinager), Honduras has more than 119,000 infections, with 438 cases detected in the last hours, and has accumulated 3,065 deaths since mid-March, when the first two positive patients were reported. .
“Whoever loves his mother and father follows biosecurity measures, puts on his mask, disinfects his hands and clothes, and does not participate in francachelas or unnecessary meetings, this is also to love and respect the father and the mother or our grandparents if we are lucky enough to live, that is also advice of wisdom, “the religious stressed.
Coronavirus vaccine
Rodriguez has lamented that humanity is “being dehumanized and in some homes the day of the Sagrada Familia will pass as insignificant and the only thing that matters is if the vaccines have arrived and if they have already begun to be put on without taking into account that the main vaccine is love “.
2020 has been “a difficult year, but not lost” despite the coronavirus pandemic and the effects of tropical storms Eta and Iota, said the Honduran cardinal, who urged Hondurans to “love and respect life,” he said. to love and respect the lives of those we love. “
“We are living and now that it is the opportunity to enter into the experience of love and life that Jesus offers us, now is also a new time for the spiritual life of each one of us, not we live linked to the past, and that this year 2020 is a year that must be forgotten, because it has been a lost year, no, it has been a difficult year, but not a lost year “, he insisted.
“All those who are still confined have found more in God, have trusted more in God, have fed on his word, have followed the celebrations of the media, can not say that it is a lost year, only those who live from material and who live from the emptiness of swarming the streets doing nothing, or from those who live plotting evil, ”the Honduran cardinal noted. EFE