Pope leads first annual day to honour healthcare workers on Covid anniversary

Pope Francis (Gregorio Borgia/AP)

Pope Francis and Italy’s president have marked a newly established annual day to honour doctors, nurses and other health care workers, exactly one year after the nation’s first known native case of Covid-19 emerged.

In a message to honour those caring for Covid-19 patients, Francis hailed the “generous involvement, at times heroic, of the profession lived as mission”.