Vatican provides Covid-19 vaccination for 100 homeless people

By Vatican News staff writer

On Wednesday afternoon, the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine was administered to a group of more than one hundred people housed in the dormitory of the Missionaries of Charity of San Gregorio al Celio and others residing in other Roman structures.

The Office of Papal Charities, in response to Pope Francis’s appeals that no one be excluded from receiving the vaccines, organized an initiative of providing 1,200 of the poorest and most vulnerable people in society with an opportunity of getting vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine – the same administered to the Pope and the employees of the Holy See.

The vaccines were administered at the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican. Present to welcome those the group vaccinated on Wednesday was the Papal Almoner, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski.

A statement from the Holy See Press Office said that in coming days, other groups of people will receive the vaccines, accompanied by volunteers from the Community of Sant’Egidio, Caritas Rome, the Missionaries of Charity and other associations.