In addition to Francis, the 94-year-old Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI, has also been vaccinated with the booster dose.
The Vatican announced today that it has begun supplying the third dose of the covid-19 vaccine to those over 60 years of age, among whom is Pope Francis, 84, and to fragile people in the Holy See.
“In the second half of October, the Directorate of Health and Hygiene of the State of Vatican City has begun to supply the third dose of the coronavirus vaccine, giving priority to those over sixty years of age and frail people,” he reported. today the Vatican spokesman, Matteo Bruni, in a statement.
In addition to Francis, the 94-year-old Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI, has also been vaccinated with the booster dose.
On February 3, Bruni confirmed that Francisco had received the second dose of the coronavirus vaccine, three weeks after the first was inoculated.
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, when the pontiff received the first dose, among his nearly 3,000 employees and 800 residents.
As in the rest of the countries, the first to be vaccinated were health personnel and the elderly.
Pope Francis has defended on numerous occasions the importance of populations being vaccinated to protect others and in September he said that thanks to these doses the world is “little by little” turning back the light, and coming out of this “ugly nightmare” of the pandemic. (I)
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