Vatican says Pope Francis only suffering from a cold, not coronavirus

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A day after the Italian newspaper Il Messaggero reported that Pope Francis tested negative for the coronavirus, the Vatican confirmed that he is only suffering from a cold.

In a Wednesday statement, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said that Francis’s cold was “running its course, without symptoms linked to other pathologies.”

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