FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis delivers the weekly Angelus prayer via video at the Vatican, March 15, 2020. Vatican Media/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has put a further spotlight on the Italian health services' struggle to cope with the coronavirus outbreak, by backing a prominent journalist's complaint that tax dodgers were partly to blame.
The comment came as Italy's chronically under-funded public hospitals have been pushed to breaking point at the epicentre of the contagion in the north and as others in less affluent regions scrambled to prepare for an onslaught.
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