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November 13, 2020 The president of the CEI, Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, has come out of the intensive care in which he had been for almost two weeks.

The indiscretions that emerged in the afternoon were confirmed by the diocese of Perugia.



"We welcome the news that our Cardinal Archbishop Gualtiero Bassetti has left the Covid 2 Intensive Care Unit to be treated again at the Covid 1 Emergency Medicine facility of the" Santa Maria della Misericordia "Hospital in Perugia where he was was hospitalized last October 31 ".

This is said by the auxiliary bishop of Perugia-Città della Pieve, Marco Salvi, still asymptomatic positive at Covid-19.



"It is comforting news to know that Cardinal Bassetti has just been discharged from intensive care - comments Msgr. Salvi - because it confirms the 'slight improvement' in his state of health announced by the doctors in the bulletin issued on November 13 by the hospital management" .

However, the clinical picture remains serious and the cardinal needs constant monitoring and appropriate care.