Citizens of Vatican City State, along with employees and pensioners will have the opportunity to receive the vaccination, as will family members who are entitled to the use of the Vatican health care system, FAS (Fondo Assistenza Sanitaria). The vaccination campaign is entirely voluntary.
Speaking in an interview on 10 January with Italy’s TG5 news programme, Pope Francis said he believes that ‘morally everyone must take the vaccine’.
Pope Francis’ remarks are the latest in a series of firm signals to the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics that he and the Vatican strongly support the global vaccination effort.
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