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Pope Francis defends vaccination and condemns ‘baseless news’ about COVID-19

He invited everyone to impose “a reality cure” for the coronavirus pandemic.

Pope Francis urged the international community on Monday to “continue efforts” to vaccinate the population and fight against the spread of “baseless news” about the coronavirus.

“It is important that efforts continue to immunize the population as much as possible. This requires a multiple commitment at the personal, political level and from the international community as a whole ”, assured the pontiff in his traditional speech at the beginning of the year to the diplomatic corps.

The pope also condemned the spread of “unfounded news” and invited everyone to impose “a reality cure” for the coronavirus pandemic.

“Unfortunately, more and more we see how we live in a world of strong ideological contrasts. Many times we allow ourselves to be influenced by the ideology of the moment, often based on unfounded news or poorly documented facts, “he told ambassadors and representatives of the 183 countries accredited to the Holy See.

“The pandemic imposes a kind of ‘reality cure’ on us, which requires facing the problem and adopting the appropriate remedies to solve it,” the pontiff warned.

“Vaccines are not magic instruments of cure, but they certainly represent, together with the treatments that are being developed, the most reasonable solution for the prevention of the disease,” he explained.

The 85-year-old Argentine pontiff has spoken out on numerous occasions in favor of the covid vaccination campaigns and once again asked “that the monopoly rules do not constitute further obstacles to production and to organized and coherent access to treatments at world level ”. (I)

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