Chapel Congregants at Virginia Seminary Possibly Exposed to Coronavirus
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Chapel Congregants at Virginia Seminary Possibly Exposed to Coronavirus
The chapel is part of the largest Episcopal seminary in the United States
By Gina Cook and Jackie Bensen Published March 10, 2020 Updated on March 10, 2020 at 11:49 pm
Virginia health officials are urging congregants and visitors to the chapel at the largest Episcopal seminary in the country to monitor themselves for symptoms of the coronavirus after a Washington, D.C., resident with COVID-19 recently spent time there.
The Alexandria Health Department was notified Tuesday that a D.C. patient went to the Immanuel Chapel of the Virginia Theological Seminary on Seminary Road between Feb. 26 and March 4, the health department said in a release.
The Very Rev. Ian Markham, dean of the Virginia Theological Seminary, told News4 that the organist of Christ Church Georgetown in D.C., who now has COVID-19, recently played at the chapel. In addition, some seminarians attended a Lenten event at Christ Church where they came into contact with the church rector, D.C.'s first coronavirus patient.
Markham said 14 seminarians are in voluntary isolation.
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