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The Guardian - UK
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Angela Giuffrida in Vatican City

Pope shows ‘slight improvement’ in health before 13th night in hospital

Faithful pray before the statue of late Pope John Paul II outside the Agostino Gemelli Hospital where Pope Francis is in hospital
Christians pray outside the hospital where the pope was admitted on 14 February. Photograph: Alessandro Di Meo/EPA

Pope Francis has shown a “further, slight improvement” as the 88-year-old remains in hospital with pneumonia, the Vatican has said.

A CT scan of the pontiff’s chest “showed a normal evolution” of the inflammation in his lungs, the Vatican said in its evening update on Wednesday, while the “mild kidney insufficiency”, which was diagnosed on Sunday, had “resolved”.

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