Pope Francis is “in good humor” and “receives much affection” from people worldwide, the Vatican spokesman said on April 1.

Pope Francis has shown ‘’a truly surprising improvement’’ since returning to the Vatican to convalesce after surviving a life-threatening bout with double-pneumonia, the doctor who coordinated the pontiff’s five-week hospitalization said Saturday.

According to a statement from Buckingham Palace on Tuesday, the decision to postpone the visit was made by "mutual agreement."

Since Francis’ hospitalization on Feb. 14, the Vatican has issued a written message from him every Sunday, but there is a possibility that on April 6, he may appear “in a different way.”

The Vatican press office said on Friday, that Pope Francis is slowly getting better as he convalesces at Casa Santa Marta. They said his medical team have noted slight respiratory, mobility, and voice-related improvements.

The doctors who cared for Pope Francis during his life-threatening health battle over the past few weeks at one point thought there might be no choice but to let him die. Professor Sergio Alfieri, the doctor in charge of caring for the pontiff after he was admitted to Gemelli hospital in Rome,

Pope Francis shared that he is experiencing “healing,” specifically “in my soul and my body,” as he reaches the eighth day of the minimum two-month period of rest and convalescence prescribed by his doctors.

Journalists and Vatican officials who have covered multiple pontificates describe the challenges, secrecy and unprecedented moments that have shaped modern papal media relations.