PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – Two pastors are due to appear in court later this week after they were arrested on Sunday for conducting services at churches in violation of the health measures prohibiting any gathering of more than ten people in a bid to prevent the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19).
Law enforcement authorities confirmed that Joseph Bertony Brunache of the Church of God in Bordes on the outskirt of the capital and Carl Sunday of the Church of Living God were detained on Sunday after their churches were filled with worshippers.
Haiti, like several Caribbean countries, has implemented measures aimed at curbing the spread of the virus that was first detected in China last December.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Public Health said the French-speaking Caribbean island had recorded three new cases of the coronavirus in the West department, with two cases in Pétion-ville and the other in Croix-des-Bouquets.
The new cases bring to 88 the island has recorded since the virus was detected here on March 19, with ten deaths. The health authorities said that 245 people are in quarantine at the hospital and 573 others are in quarantine at their homes. (CMC)
