In this current crisis, all essential workers, all those ill with COVID-19, and all those caring for them, in order to maintain or regain their health and strength, are dispensed from the requirement of abstinence on the Fridays of Lent, and of fasting and abstinence on Good Friday (cc. 1245, 1251). This dispensation applies to all Catholics of the Diocese of Davenport, whether they are within or outside of the Diocese, and to all travelers within the Diocese on these days. (c. 136).