The Vatican said on Saturday that tests carried out in the building where Pope Francis lives after one resident tested positive for coronavirus showed that the pontiff and his closest aides do not have the disease.
FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis sits at St. Peter's Basilica during an extraordinary"Urbi et Orbi" blessing - normally given only at Christmas and Easter -, as a response to the global coronavirus disease pandemic, at the Vatican, March 27, 2020. REUTERS/Yara Nardi/Pool
Tests showed one other person who had been in contact with the priest also came up positive but that person did not live in the papal residence. Francis appears to be in generally good health but part of one of his lungs was removed following an illness when he was a young man.
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