Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who serves as the Vatican’s secretary of state and the pope’s No. 2 tested positive for COVID-19. Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, who has also tested positive at the Vatican is showing to be asymptomatic. As reported by the AP:
There was no immediate comment form any Vatican spokesperson on Parolin or Parra’s last contact with Pope Francis
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican secretary of state and his deputy have both tested positive for the coronavirus, Vatican officials said Tuesday.
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who serves as the Vatican’s secretary of state and the pope’s No. 2, has “very light” symptoms, while Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra is asymptomatic, officials said.
There was no immediate comment on their last contact with Pope Francis. It wasn’t clear if Francis has received a booster shot, which has been administered to his predecessor, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.
These are the first cases of COVID-19 confirmed so high up in the Vatican hierarchy since the pandemic began.
Source AP
