"Pope Francis rested well during the night. The clinical picture is progressively improving and he is continuing his planned treatment." This was made known yesterday by the Director of the Vatican Press Office, Matteo Bruni, in a communication to journalists regarding the health condition of the Pontiff, who has been hospitalized since yesterday at Policlinico A. Gemelli for a respiratory infection. Bruni let it be known that yesterday morning the Pope, "after having breakfast, read some newspapers and went back to work." "Before lunch," the statement further reads, "he went to the little chapel of his private apartment, where he gathered in prayer and received the Eucharist. On Tuesday evening, the Vatican spokesman had disclosed that in recent days Pope Francis had complained of some respiratory difficulties, and in the afternoon he had gone to Policlinico Gemelli for some medical checks. The outcome of these had shown a respiratory infection - excluding COVID-19 infection - which will require several days of appropriate hospital medical treatment.