In a step towards building a new general for the Covid era, the Vatican announced Wednesday that Pope Francis will restart his weekly face-to-face hearings in an open court, starting next week, months after the head of the Catholic Church ended. practice as the coronavirus pandemic spread.
Wednesday’s weekly general with the non-secular leader of the world’s 1. 2 billion Roman Catholics will begin on September 2nd and will be held in the courtyard of St. God of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, not in the famous St. Peter’s Square, with a maximum of 500 people. Seats will be available, a Vatican spokesman told the AFP.
These general hearings will be open to “anyone who wishes” to participate, the Vatican said, while no tickets are required and rallies will begin at 9:30 a. m. local time.
Once it was the epicentre of the pandemic in Europe, Italy launched strict blocking procedures in early March, which began to mitigate in May; however, the Pope’s reappearance comes amid reports that the number of cases in Italy is increasing again.
The country reported more than 1,000 coronavirus infections on Saturday for the first time since it began easing restrictions in May, according to reports that attributed the spike to citizens returning from summer vacation.
Italy, the first country in the world to move to a total blockade on March 9, saw its gigantic elderly population hit hard for the first time; According to Johns Hopkins, the country recorded more than 700 deaths daily in March and early April, compared to the average number of adolescent deaths in August.
35445: That is the number of coronavirus deaths in Italy on Wednesday, for Johns Hopkins, which raises the number of coronavirus cases in the country to 261,174.
At the beginning of June, Italy had the fourth highest number of coronavirus deaths in the world, with another 34,000 people dying from the virus in the United States (110,000), United Kingdom (40,500) and Brazil (36,000). Array Since then, the death toll in that country has risen 4%, while the death toll in the United States, which remains the highest in the world, has risen 62% since June to 178,535, according to the Johns HopkinsArray.
Although not so visible, the Pope spoke of the pandemic, recently arguing that vaccines deserve not to be reserved for rich countries at the expense of the poor. “I would be unhappy if this vaccine had become the asset of this country or another, rather than universal and for everyone,” the Pope said last week.
The general will resume with the contribution of the faithful (Vatican News)
Pope to resume public hearings in September (New Vision)
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