Pope Francis came today to meet the homeless or those in difficulty, who were vaccinated in the atrium of the Paul VI Hall, thanks to a vaccination campaign for the most vulnerable, launched by the Vatican.
The pope greeted doctors and nurses, followed the procedure for preparing vaccine doses and spoke with people waiting to be vaccinated, who are greeted and accompanied by some Roman associations, and took some photos with them.
To date, there are about 800 homeless people vaccinated in the Vatican with the first dose and expect to reach 1,200 fully immunized.
The first group of 100 people was vaccinated on March 31 and were people housed in the home of the Missionaries of Charity in San Gregorio al Celio and residents of other Roman structures.
The Vatican, which has already immunized all its residents and workers, has started a vaccination campaign for the most vulnerable by purchasing doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, provided by the Romanian hospital Lazzaro Spallanzani.
The doctors and health workers who will be vaccinated will be volunteers already working permanently in the “Madre di Misericordia” clinic, located under the Bernini colonnade (in St. Peter’s Square) and employees of the Vatican Government’s Health and Hygiene Directorate and the Institute’s volunteers. of Solidarity Medicine and Spallanzani, “from Rome,” the Vatican explained
With this measure, which aims to “specify the appeals of Pope Francis, so that no one is excluded from the vaccination campaign against COVID-19,” they stressed.
The Vatican’s Health and Hygiene Directorate has set aside about 10,000 vaccines from the pharmaceutical company Pfizer for its vaccination campaign among nearly 3,000 employees and 800 residents.
Francisco, 84, received his second dose of coronavirus vaccine in February last year.
“I call on all heads of state, companies, international organizations to promote cooperation and not competition, to find a solution for all vaccines for all, especially for the most vulnerable and needy in all regions of the world. First of all, the most vulnerable and the needy! ”said the Pope in an appeal at the end of 2020.