Sergio Alfieri, one of the doctors for Pope Francis, said he is a “fragile” patient given his advanced age and chronic health issues.

“The pope is fine,” Sergio Alfieri, the head surgeon at the Gemelli hospital in Rome, where the pope is being treated, said during the news conference at the hospital. “Is the pope out of danger? No, the pope is not out of danger,” he said, but specified Francis is not in a life-threatening situation.

His doctors said “the pope is fine” and “working,” though they cautioned that he remains in significant danger as he fights a bout of double pneumonia.

The pope is not a quitter,” the Holy Father’s physician told journalists toward the end of a Friday press conference at Gemelli Hospital in Rome.

While Pope Francis has not yet fully recovered from double pneumonia, Gemelli Hospital doctors said Friday his illness is not life threatening.

Pope Francis, who is being treated in hospital for double pneumonia, is not yet out of danger but is expected to live, one of his doctors said on Friday. Francis is being treated at Rome's Gemelli hospital,

Pope Francis isn’t at imminent risk of dying from his bout of pneumonia and his condition has improved slightly in recent days, although he isn’t yet in the clear, doctors at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital told reporters on Friday.