[ad_1]
Pope Francis greets the faithful as he holds an Angelus prayer from the window of the apostolic palace overlooking St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican on December 8, 2020 as part of the annual Feast of the Immaculate Conception. (Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP)
VATICAN CITY – A practical pontiff who has avoided consumerism, Pope Francis is gifting Vatican employees boxes of cold and flu relief pills for Christmas this year.
A Vatican source confirmed to AFP that the unconventional gift has already begun to be sent to the 4,000 employees of the Vatican state.
A photograph in the Il Messaggero newspaper showed piles of cold and flu pills in boxes labeled “Gift of the Holy Father to Vatican employees (five boxes per employee).”
Cold and rainy weather has swept Rome and the flu shot has arrived late this year in Italy.
Experts are concerned that a spike in flu cases in January will exacerbate tensions in a health care system already struggling to overcome the second wave of coronavirus cases.
For more news on the new coronavirus, click here.
What you need to know about the coronavirus.
For more information on COVID-19, call the DOH hotline: (02) 86517800 local 1149/1150.
The Inquirer Foundation supports our leaders in healthcare and still accepts cash donations to be deposited into the Banco de Oro (BDO) checking account # 007960018860 or donate through PayMaya using this link .
Read next
Subscribe to INQUIRER PLUS to get access to The Philippine Daily Inquirer and more than 70 other titles, share up to 5 gadgets, listen to the news, download from 4am and share articles on social media. Call 896 6000.
For comments, complaints or inquiries, please contact us.
[ad_2]
