An Italian representative of the Holy See who lives in a similar home as Pope Francis was accounted for Thursday to have tried positive for COVID-19 and been hospitalized.

A few Italian papers with trustworthy sources in the Vatican said the priest has lived for quite a long time in Saint Martha's visitor house.

Pope Francis has remained to a great extent separated at his living arrangement since contracting a cold toward the finish of a month ago.

The 83-year-old pontiff has a little loft in the structure and takes his suppers there.

He additionally has private gatherings there and at times moves to the Vatican library to record live-streamed messages to the world's 1.3 billion Catholics.

The La Stampa and Il Messagro papers said the anonymous individual has been hospitalized in Rome and steps have been taken to sterilize the structure.

La Stampa furthermore revealed that Pope Francis has been "eating alone in his space for quite a while" as a safety measure.

"He invests quite a bit of his energy in his condo, and when he moves inside the home, he keeps the fundamental safe separations," La Stampa composed.

Vatican representative Matteo Bruni disclosed to AFP he could neither affirm nor deny the reports.

The official Vatican News site said the quantity of individuals contaminated in the city-state has ascended to four.

This incorporates one individual who originally tried positive on March 6.

"The new cases incorporate a worker of the production office and two representatives of the Vatican Museums," the official news site said.

The Argentine-conceived pontiff has delighted in the existence of good wellbeing despite losing some portion of a lung as a youngster and experienced sciatica - a nerve condition that causes torment in his hip.