Pope Francis went today to greet homeless or distressed people who were being vaccinated in the atrium of the Paul VI Classroom, thanks to a vaccination campaign of the most vulnerable that the Vatican has launched.
The pope greeted the doctors and nurses, followed the procedure for preparing the doses of the vaccine and spoke to the people waiting for the vaccination, who are people welcomed and accompanied by some Roman associations and took some photos with them. .
To date, approximately 800 homeless people have been vaccinated in the Vatican with the first dose and it is expected to reach 1,200 completely immunized.
The first group of 100 were vaccinated on March 31 and were people staying in the dormitory of the missionaries of the Charity of St. Gregory in Celio and residents in other Roman structures.
The Vatican, which has already immunized all its inhabitants and workers, has begun a campaign to vaccinate the most vulnerable with the purchase of doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, supplied by the Roman hospital Lazzaro Spallanzani.
The doctors and health workers who will be vaccinated will be the volunteers who already work permanently in the office “Mother I gave Mercy”, located under the colonnade of Bernini (in St. Peter’s Square) and employees of the Directorate of Health and Hygiene of the Vatican City Government and the volunteers of the Institute of Solidarity Medicine and the Spallanzani, “of Rome,” the Vatican explained
With this measure, which aims to “concretize Pope Francis’ calls for no one to be excluded from the COVID-19 vaccination campaign,” they stressed.
The Vatican City Health and Hygiene Directorate reserved about 10,000 vaccines from pharmaceutical company Pfizer for its vaccination campaign among its nearly 3,000 employees and 800 residents.
Francesc, 84, received the second dose of the coronavirus vaccine last February.
“I call on all, the heads of state, companies, international organizations, to promote cooperation and not competition, to seek a solution for all vaccines for all, especially for the most vulnerable and needy in all regions of the world. planet. First of all, the most vulnerable and needy! “, the Pope said in a call at the end of 2020.