Pope Francis announced on Saturday that he would be vaccinated “next week”, in an interview with the Italian television channel Canale 5, saying that opposition to the vaccine against the Covid reflects “suicidal denial”. “Next week, we will start to do it here (in the Vatican, editor’s note) and I made an appointment, we must do it”, in this interview which is to be broadcast on Sunday evening but of which some extracts have been communicated to the media .
Faced with the vaccine, “there is a suicidal denial that I could not explain, but today we must be vaccinated”, said the sovereign pontiff.
