A total of 67 Italian Catholic priests have died after being infected with the novel coronavirus.
The Avvenire newspaper revealed this on Wednesday, adding that the youngest of those listed by the Catholic Church-affiliated paper was 53.
“Priests get sick and die like everybody else, maybe even more than the rest,” the Avvenire wrote.
The paper said 22 of the fatalities were in the Bergamo diocese, at the heart of the outbreak not far from the financial centre Milan.
Pope Francis asked priests “to have the courage to go out and see the sick” when the pandemic was gathering strength across the country on March 10.
Bisola
March 26, 2020 at 8:57 am
So sad. Our Nigerian brothers wey say God go cover them, any person wey dey in d secret place of the most high get immunity, bla bla bla, u guys should better take preventive measures o. Una no dey more holy or righteousness than all d people wey don die. Sm set of people dn com pray this early morning for my street say coronavirus no go near children of God. I no know whether na Satan create people wey get the virus. Everybody better b careful o. Stay safe o. No do James bond for coronavirus o. The virus no dey look face. Even pastors dey Dia house dey fear o. Receive sense o. We pray d cure cms soon