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ROME – As Pope Francis faces mounting criticism for not wearing a face mask amid a sharp rise in coronavirus cases in Italy and the rest of Europe, a Vatican official has acknowledged that the pope is at high risk and voiced hope the pontiff would wear a mask more often.
Asked why the pope doesn’t don a facemask during his public audiences despite Italian state protocols requiring citizens to wear one, Father Augusto Zampini noted that Pope Francis is over 80 years old, and “a high risk person if he got COVID.”
Adjunct secretary of the Vatican department for Integral Human Development, which oversees the Vatican’s COVID taskforce, Zampini spoke to journalists during an Oct. 27 roundtable on the taskforce’s work.
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On pope not wearing a mask: ‘We’re working on it’, Vatican official says
Asked why the pope doesn’t don a facemask during his public audiences despite Italian state protocols requiring citizens to wear one, Father Augusto Zampini noted that Pope Francis is over 80 years old, and “a high risk person if he got COVID.”
Adjunct secretary of the Vatican department for Integral Human Development, which oversees the Vatican’s COVID taskforce, Zampini spoke to journalists during an Oct. 27 roundtable on the taskforce’s work.
Continued below.
On pope not wearing a mask: ‘We’re working on it’, Vatican official says
