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A source in the Vatican said on Tuesday, December 22, 2020, that two Vatican cardinals tested positive for coronavirus, one of whom spends most of his time helping the homeless in Rome. Cardinal Konrad Krejevsky, a 57-year-old Pole who runs the charitable work of Pope Francis and nicknamed the “Vatican Values,” was hospitalized for treatment for early pneumonia.
The source said tests confirmed that 78-year-old Vatican City Governor Giuseppe Bertello was infected with the Corona virus, and is believed to be isolating himself at his Vatican home.
It is unclear whether one or both attended a celebration on Monday, in which members of the Vatican’s central administration, known as the (Curia), exchanged congratulations with the pope on the occasion of Christmas.
There was no official confirmation from the Vatican of the results of the tests the two underwent. And Italy is the first Western country in which the Corona virus appeared, and has seen 69,214 deaths from the virus since its appearance in February, which is the highest number of deaths in Corona in Europe and the fifth largest in the world.
It also recorded about 1.96 million injured to date. In September, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagli, a Filipino who heads the defense arm at the Vatican, became infected with the Corona virus and underwent quarantine, and is believed to be in good condition now.
During the first wave of the epidemic last spring, more than a dozen papal guards were infected with Corona, as well as one person staying in the same guesthouse as the Pope.
