Serbian Orthodox Patriarch dies of Covid-19

Patriarch Irinej, the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, died of coronavirus on Friday, three weeks after his unofficial second-in-command also succumbed to Covid-19, the church said. The 90-year-old cleric was hospitalised on November 4 after testing positive and was immediately admitted to a military hospital in Belgrade. While church said the patriarch was “without symptoms” and in “excellent” condition, he developed a high fever and his…