Pope Francis, who has been in hospital for more than two weeks with double pneumonia, spent a “calm night”, the Vatican said yesterday, after reporting he was in a stable condition.
“The pope is still resting,” the Holy See said in its latest health update on the 88-year-old head of the Catholic Church.
On Saturday evening, it had said the pope’s condition was “stable”, adding that he was still receiving oxygen, had no fever, had been eating, was alert and praying.
His haemodynamic parameters – those relating to the flow of blood – were also stable, and he did not have the high white-blood-cell count that often indicates an infection, the Vatican said, adding that the prognosis, as in previous days, remained “reserved”.
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