Lhe Vatican began on Wednesday to vaccinate a first group of around twenty-five homeless people against Covid-19, who are already benefiting from its assistance around Saint Peter’s Square.
Other groups will follow in the coming days, further clarified Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni in a statement.
The beneficiaries are people housed in a building made available to the Holy See to get tramps out of the street, or in two houses entrusted to Missionaries of Charity of Mother Teresa, specifies the Vatican information portal.
They are Italians, but also Georgians and Romanians, often with serious physical problems, says the Vatican website. “Now I have additional security,” said Mario, a one-legged wheelchair user on Wednesday.
The pope’s apostolic chaplaincy – headed by Polish cardinal Konrad Krajewski who himself contracted the virus in December – provided some 4,000 tests for the detection of Covid-19, a gift from Slovakia, to homeless people at Christmas .
The vaccination campaign in the small Vatican state began a week ago for its employees and residents.
Pope Francis, 84, and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, 93 and reclusive in his Vatican City monastery, were both vaccinated.
In recent months, the Pope has not stopped calling for fraternity, which also involves the provision of vaccines against Covid-19 to the most disadvantaged.
20/01/2021 14:08:15 – Vatican City (AFP) – © 2021 AFP
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