Father Martin Miskuf shows his mobile phone wrapped in plastic to a Covid-19 patient hospitalized at University Hospital J.A. Reiman in Presov, Slovakia on February 18, 2021.

Vladimir Simicek
Father Martin Miskuf shows his mobile phone wrapped in plastic to a COVID patient hospitalized at University Hospital J.A. Reiman in Presov, Slovakia on February 18, 2021. In a hospital with broken windows and peeling paint in a poor part of Slovakia, dozens of Catholic priests have volunteered since January to provide spiritual assistance in particularly busy Covid wards, helping overworked medical staff battling the world's second highest Covid mortality rate.

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