The Vatican will vaccinate 1,200 poor people in Holy Week

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March 26, 2021 To give substance to the various appeals of Pope Francis so that no one is excluded from the anti Covid-19 vaccination campaign, the Apostolic Charity is once again close to the most fragile and vulnerable people.

"With the imminence of Easter Sunday - Resurrection of the Lord, and precisely during Holy Week, other doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, purchased by the Holy See and offered by the Lazzaro Spallanzani Hospital, through the Vatican Commission Covid-19, will be destined the vaccination of 1,200 people among the poorest and most marginalized, who are the most exposed to the virus due to their condition ".

The Apostolic Charity makes it known.       

"The vaccination of the poor during Holy Week will take place in the structure specifically set up inside the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican, and the same vaccine administered to the Pope and to the employees of the Holy See will be used. Doctors and health workers - he explains Almsgiving - employees will be the volunteers who work permanently in the "Madre di Misericordia" Clinic, located under the Bernini colonnade, the employees of the Health and Hygiene Directorate of the Governorate of the Vatican City State and the volunteers of the Institute of Medicine Solidarity and the Lazzaro Spallanzani Hospital ".

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"To continue sharing the miracle of charity towards the most vulnerable brothers, and to give them the possibility of accessing this right, - explains the Apostolic Charity - it will be possible to make an online donation for a" suspended vaccine ", on the account of the Holy Father's charity managed by the Apostolic Almsineria (www.elemosineria.va) ".       

The Almoner card.

Konrad Krajewski recalls that in the "Message for the Solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord 2020, Pope Francis made a heartfelt appeal: 'I ask everyone: the heads of States, companies, international organizations, to promote cooperation and not competition, and to seek a solution for all: vaccines for all, especially for the most vulnerable and needy in all regions of the planet. In the first place, the most vulnerable and needy. Faced with a challenge that knows no boundaries, they cannot be erected barriers. We are all in the same boat. '"

On the use of the vaccine, moreover, - Cardinal Krajewski still remembers - the Pontiff has repeatedly encouraged people to get vaccinated, because it is the way to exercise responsibility towards others and collective well-being, strongly reiterating that everyone must have access to vaccine, without anyone being excluded because of poverty.

Last January, when the anti-Covid-19 vaccination campaign began in the Vatican, Pope Francis wished that among the first vaccinated people there were over twenty-five poor people, mostly homeless, who live around St. Peter's and who on a daily basis they are assisted and welcomed by the assistance and residence structures of the Apostolic Charity ".