The Vatican has announced that the Pope’s health continues to improve and that he is no longer in immediate danger.
The Pope’s condition is said to remain stable.
The Holy See’s Press Office said: “The improvements recorded in previous days have been further consolidated, as confirmed by both blood tests and clinical findings, as well as by the Pope’s good response to pharmacological therapy.
“For these reasons, the doctors have decided today to lift their guarded prognosis. However, given the complexity of the Pope’s clinical picture and the severe infection present at the time of hospitalisation, it will still be necessary to continue pharmacological treatment in a hospital setting for a period of time.”
His Holiness, 88, has been hospitalised at Gemelli Hospital in Rome since Friday, 14 February, but received an updated diagnosis of double pneumonia the following week.
Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio on 17 December 1936 in Argentina, Pope Francis has been the head of the Catholic Church since the abdication of Pope Benedict in 2013.
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