Cardinal Tagle tests positive for Covid-19: First leader of the Holy See department to be hit by Coronavirus
Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle Even Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle was not spared from the coronavirus disease. The Holy See Press Office announced on Friday that Cardinal Tagle tested positive for Covid-19 after a swab test was conducted upon his arrival in Manila on Thursday. "Cardinal Tagle actually tested positive for Covid-19 with a pharyngeal swab carried out yesterday on his arrival in Manila," said Matteo Bruni, director of the Holy See Press Office, the branch that publishes official activities of Pope and other departments of the Roman Curia. But Bruni said Tagle, the prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, "has no symptoms and will remain in mandatory self-quarantine in the Philippines." The Filipino cardinal was the first leader of the Holy See department to be hit by Covid-19, according to Bruni. "In the meantime," he added, "necessary checks are being carried out among those who have come into contact with His E...