Concerns for Pope's health as audiences cancelled: Vatican says no cause for alarm

ROME – On Saturday the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had cancelled his meetings for the day due to a “slight flu-like condition,” and later added that he had visited Rome’s Gemelli Hospital for a CAT scan to rule out pneumonia.

The Pope’s calendar for Saturday was supposed to include a meeting with Umaro Sissoco Embaló, the president of Guinea Bissau.

Later in the afternoon the Vatican sent a brief communique saying that in the “in the early hours of the afternoon Pope Francis underwent a CAT scan” at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital “to exclude the risk of pulmonary complications.”