February 29, 2020 | 9: 15 am

Pope Francis has canceled a 3rd day of scheduled occasions to recover from a concealed illness.

The 83- year-old pontiff will skip 2 main audiences at the Apostolic Palace. One would have been with a team of bioethicists and another with the Catholic “Legion of Christ.”

Francis is working from the Vatican’s Santa Marta hotel during his healing, papal authorities stated, who noted he continues to go to Mass each morning.

The Vatican has not offered any details about his disease, calling it only a “slight indisposition.”

The pope has actually not been seen in public since he was caught on camera coughing and blowing his nose during an Ash Wednesday Mass.

His absence– the longest sick leave of his papacy– comes as coronavirus sweeps Italy. The nation has reported 888 cases and at least 21 deaths, according to the latest numbers; Italy is now the most contaminated country after China.

Authorities at the Centers for Illness Control and Avoidance have actually alerted Americans to brace for the disease spreading in the United States and potentially becoming a pandemic.

With Post Wires