In the morning, Pope Francis had perceived his official obligations as usual; Among other things, he received the Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico for a private audience. But then the battered health of the 88-year-old Pontifex apparently demanded its tribute: In the late morning, the Vatican press office announced that Franziskus had been admitted to the Gemelli Clinic in Rome, on the tenth floor of which a small apartment for the popes for many years is reserved. In the hospital, some necessary diagnostic tests would be carried out and the treatment of bronchitis would be continued, the press office said. So far, Francis has been administered cortisone, but this was not enough, the usually well -informed knew Corriere della Sera to report.
