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In today's day and age with COVID, many synagogues are streamlining the process for safety reasons. One of the things is to have the same person who opens the Aron, take out the Torah and then close the Aron. Would it be a lack in כבוד התורה, honor to the Torah, to while holding the Torah do another activity like closing the Aron?
Would it matter if there are other Torahs in the Aron or not?
Obviously health takes precedence. However, someone asked me the question.
If the Chazzan is right by the Aron, then he can first hand the Torah to the Chazzan, and then close the Aron [as someone commented]. And if the Chazzan is not right by the Aron, then as soon as the one holding the Torah is 6 feet away from the Aron, - on his way to the Chazzan, someone else can come close the Aron.
But as to your actual question, even before COVID, it was very common for the one taking out the Torah to close the Aron and then hand the Torah to the Chazzan. It was even common in most places that for non-special Torah readings [eg. Monday & Thursday] the Chazzan himself did everything.
