Death toll of clergy, many of whom have assisted and comforted the sick since start of pandemic, nearing 270
Calls are growing in Italy to prioritise the vaccination of priests against Covid-19 as the death toll among members of the clergy, many of whom have assisted and comforted the sick since the beginning of the pandemic, approaches 270.
Dozens of dioceses, religious groups and priests have in recent weeks expressed support for a call for priests to be prioritise from the archbishop of Reggio Calabria, Giuseppe Fiorini Morosini, who in January told an interviewer that the church was continuing to lose clergy to the disease.
