Coronavirus live updates | Patriarchate claims ‘clergy exempted from transportation ban on easter’

The latest stories:

• Azerbaijan arrests journalists for ‘violating quarantine’
• ‘Stay home or what happened to Italy will happen to us’ Georgian health official warns churchgoers
• Georgian Government will not close churches — ‘especially on Easter’
• Analysis | Georgia follows the Japan trajectory, for now
• Analysis | As COVID-19 sends political campaigning to Facebook, will polarisation increase?
• Six more opposition activists arrested in Azerbaijan
• Georgian doctor accused of sexually harassing quarantined woman 
• Georgian Orthodox Church remains unyielding as Easter celebrations approach
• Georgia’s homeless ‘at high risk’ during COVID-19
• Analysis | How COVID-19 could increase mortality rates for all age groups in Georgia
• Opinion | The conflict between Church and state during a pandemic endangers us all

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