Dakar, 18 January, 2021 / 4:09 pm (ACI Africa).
Catholic Bishops in Senegal have expressed concerns about the new variant of COVID-19 and called for collective efforts to defeat the pandemic that has reportedly infected at least 95.2 million people across the globe.
In an audience with President Macky Sall Thursday 14 January, the Bishops reaffirmed their commitment to fighting against the coronavirus, whose new variant is “particularly deadly.”
Addressing President Sall on behalf of the Catholic Bishops in Senegal, Archbishop Benjamin Ndiaye of Dakar Archdiocese called for collective efforts from all Senegalese people “to defeat the new COVID-19 variant that threatens our lives, that of our families, the life of our country, the life of the world.”
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“Each one of us is responsible for our brother and sister, in the way we behave,” the Bishops said underscoring the need to adhere to COVID-19 preventive measures.
