Editor s note:
As part of our Coronavirus: One Year Later coverage, we invited leaders of women s congregational associations to reflect on how the pandemic has affected religious life in their regions. Some provided overviews; others focused on their individual congregations as emblematic of shared experience. This entry is from the Croatian Conference of Religious. (NCR, GSR logo/Toni-Ann Ortiz)
COVID-19 and the preventive measures that the whole world has been facing for a year now have also affected Croatia and its religious communities. Apostolic communities were affected more than cloistered ones. In total, there were 417 COVID-19 infected patients with severe symptoms, 159 patients who tested positive but without symptoms, 992 persons who had to self-isolate (they tested negative but had contact with someone who had tested positive), and eight who died of COVID-19 in Croatian religious communities, according to data compiled by the Croatian Conference of