Moldovan Metropolitan Church

Moldova says the number of COVID-19 infections is again on the rise, raising fears of a second wave of the coronavirus. The head of the National Agency for Public Health, Nicolae Furtuna, said on Friday that last week alone 45 deaths were registered and the average number of infections during the past few days had exceeded 200 a day.

Russian Patriarch Kirill presented President Igor Dodon with a Russian religious order on Wednesday on the first day of the Moldovan leader's official visit to Moscow.

"His Holiness gave me the Order of St. Sergius de Radonezh, in the second degree, for the active support shown for the public initiatives of the Orthodox Church in Moldova," Dodon wrote on Facebook.