Coronavirus Impacting Missionary Service In Hong Kong 113 Missionaries will be transferring out of the China Hong Kong mission in the next few days.
Updated February 5, 2020
The Church issued the following updated statement regarding missionaries being transferred from Hong Kong and Macau:
The Church continues to monitor developments with the coronavirus. Overnight, we have learned that some of the missionaries leaving the China Hong Kong Mission will not undergo quarantine at a government facility as previously believed. Therefore, these 17 missionaries (who are citizens of the Philippines) will be isolated and separated from contact with other missionaries for 14 days at the missionary training center in Manila before departing for their new assignments or returning home.
The Church feels an important responsibility to do all we can to help these missionaries stay healthy and avoid even the remote possibility of spreading the virus. Staff at the missionary training center will work carefully to meet all the needs of these missionaries while they are there and to keep themselves and other missionaries safe by following proper health protocols.
As we have noted previously, for several days prior to leaving Hong Kong, all missionaries have rigorously followed preventative health practices to avoid illness including remaining in their apartments as much as possible, not engaging in teaching, wearing masks, and frequently washing their hands. Therefore, the likelihood of any of these missionaries having contracted the coronavirus is very low. Additionally, each missionary was required to show no symptoms before leaving Hong Kong.
Surely Romney will bring them here.
Shipping them around the world without a legit 14-day quarantine and only several days indoors and wearing masks seems highly irresponsible.
Many of our LCMS (Lutheran) missionaries are out. Many go home over the Lunar Holiday.
They can’t get back. Local churches are still online, but not much news.
Many of our LCMS (Lutheran) missionaries are out. Many go home over the Lunar Holiday.
They can’t get back. Local churches are still online, but not much news.