A note published on the website of the Avvenire newspaper, based on a report from the Holy See press office, indicates that Francis continues with “pharmacological therapy, motor and respiratory physiotherapy.”

Oxygen therapy continues to be applied to the Bishop of Rome and ‘during the night high flows are used, while during the day cannulas are used, progressively reducing the oxygen at high flows, in favor of oxygen administered with ordinary flows’. The Pope, in compliance with his rest, continues for the moment to receive no visits from outside, except those of ‘his closest collaborators in the way indicated by the doctors’, and is assisted by his personal nurse, Massimiliano Strappetti, supervised by the Vatican’s team of specialists.

The Supreme Pontiff, according to the source, is only doing ‘the work that his current conditions allow him’, the report stresses, and adds that ‘nothing has been decided either about the Easter rites and the audiences with the heads of state’ who will visit the Holy See, the first of whom will be Polish president, Andrzej Duda, next Thursday.

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