Coronavirus: Pope Francis announced he would get vaccinated next week and said “everyone” should do it

Pope Francis predicted that thenext week the coronavirus vaccine will be applied and assured today that everyone should agree to be vaccinated against disease.

“Everyone should be vaccinated; it is an ethical option, because You bet your health, your life, but you also gamble the lives of others“, said Francisco in an exclusive interview with Mediaset, in a passage broadcast on the channel Tg5 from Italy and which was reproduced by the agency ANSA.

There, he pointed out that next week the coronavirus vaccine would begin to be applied in the Vatican, and announced that he would do it himself: “I booked, you have to do it”.

“When I was a child, I remember that there was the polio crisis and that many children were paralyzed by it and that there was a desperation to be vaccinated”, he said. stated in reference to his native Argentina.

And he added: “When the vaccine came out, they gave it with a few drops on a lump of sugar and there were a lot of desperate mothers. We grew up in the shadow of vaccines, for measles, for that, for that other, the vaccines they gave us as children“.

Suicidal Denial

“I don’t know why someone is saying “no, the vaccine is dangerous”. If the doctors present it to you as something that can be good, that has no particular dangers, why not take it? Added the Pope.

At this point he added: “There is a suicidal denial that I cannot explain, but today we have to get vaccinated.”

he On January 2, the Vatican announced that the vaccination campaign there against Covid-19 would start in mid-January, with priority for health and public safety personnel, the elderly and workers in contact with the public.

“I don’t know why someone is saying, ‘No, the vaccine is dangerous. “If the doctors present it to you as something that can be good, that it has no particular dangers, why not take it?” Said the Pope.

“The coronavirus vaccination campaign will begin in the coming days within Vatican City State. Vaccines are expected to arrive in the second week of January in sufficient quantity to meet the needs of the Holy See and the Vatican City State, ”the Holy See explained in a statement.

The Vatican implemented a series of contagion prevention measures and Christmas celebrations were celebrated without worshipers.

At the end of last October, it was decided that the general audience of Pope Francis on Wednesday would again be without worshipers and broadcast on the Internet from the library of the Apostolic Palace, after a case of coronavirus was detected in which the 21 of this month.