Covid, Cardinal Bassetti improves and abandons intensive care – Corriere.it

VATICAN CITY Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti left intensive care in the afternoon and returned to the Covid ward of the Santa Maria della Misericordia hospital in Perugia. The 78-year-old president of the CEI, hospitalized since October 31, was transferred to intensive care on November 3; On Monday there was a “general worsening of the panorama”, the Italian bishops had invited the faithful to pray for him and for all the sick. Now doctors speak of a “slight improvement” that led to the decision to discharge him from the ICU and return him to the medical ward.

“Comforting news”, the auxiliary bishop, Monsignor Marco Salvi, comments with relief, although the situation remains delicate: “The clinical picture continues to be serious and the cardinal needs constant monitoring and adequate care. For this it is necessary to continue incessantly in prayer for our pastor, all the sick and the health workers who treat them. Monsignor Salvi, himself positive but asymptomatic and isolated, received a phone call from Pope Francis on Tuesday night: “He asked me to take a message to the cardinal and he said three times: ‘Come on, come on, come on!’ “.