It is unknown if any of them have had recent contact with Pope Francis.
The Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, and his “number two”, Monsignor Edgar Peña Parra, have tested positive for coronavirus and are in quarantine, the Vatican reported today.
The Italian cardinal has “very slight” discomfort, while the Venezuelan archbishop, the substitute for the Vatican Secretariat of State, is asymptomatic, the Holy See Press Office said. Both are in isolation.
It is unknown if any of them have had recent contact with Pope Francis, 84, who received the third dose of the vaccine at the end of last October, when the Vatican began supplying the over-60s and the frail.
The Vatican City Health and Hygiene Directorate reserved nearly 10,000 vaccines from the pharmaceutical company Pfizer for its vaccination campaign, which began on January 13, 2021, when the Pontiff received the first dose, among its nearly 3,000 employees. and 800 residents.
Francis has defended on numerous occasions the importance of populations being vaccinated to protect others, and last September he said that thanks to these doses the world is returning “little by little to light”, and coming out of this “ugly nightmare” of the pandemic. (I)
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