Pope: vaccine hope if it is for everyone, we are in the same boat

(ANSA) - VATICAN CITY, DEC 25 - The discoveries of vaccines are "lights of hope" if they are "available to all". The Pope said this in the Urbi et Orbi blessing, asking to avoid that "the laws of the market and patents are over the laws of health and humanity". On the issue of vaccines for Covid, the Pope also said that "we cannot let closed nationalisms prevent us" from helping those most in difficulty. We need to overcome "the virus of radical individualism which makes us indifferent to the sufferings of brothers and sisters". Then the appeal to states, businesses and organizations to "promote cooperation and not competition" to make vaccines available "for all, especially the most vulnerable and the most needy" who are "in the first place". "In the face of a challenge that knows no boundaries, barriers cannot be erected. We are all on the same boat", he reiterated in Urbi et Orbi. (HANDLE).