Poor people are being offered
free COVID-19 swabs at a walk-in clinic set up by the Vatican in
the colonnade of St Peter's Square.
In two weeks the clinic has taken 50 swabs a day, said
Archbishop Rino Fisichella, President of the Pontifical Council
for the Promotion of the New Evangelisation.
This is in addition to providing flu jabs, he said.
The service is available to the poor coming into dormitories
under the colonnade and to those wanting to return to their
countries of origin, said Fisichella.
The archbishop said the service is one of the "concrete signs"
offered by the Church for World Poor Day next Sunday.
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