The Vatican has said Pope Francis "rested well" as he remains in hospital.
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The Gemelli hospital has been treating popes for more than thirty years.
Francis is receiving supplemental oxygen when he needs it through a nasal cannula, a thin flexible tube that delivers oxygen through the nose.
As the pope enters his second week in a Rome hospital with a lung infection, his physicians said his condition was critical but not immediately life-threatening.
The pontiff is responding to drug therapy and sepsis has not been detected, doctors say.
Chronic illness remains but pontiff, 88, is stable and in good humour, doctor says ...
Sergio Alfieri, one of the doctors for Pope Francis, said he is a "fragile" patient given his advanced age and chronic health issues.
Doctors for Pope Francis say he is improving but "not out of danger."
Pope Francis' personal physician said the pontiff was responding to drug therapy that was strengthened after he was diagnosed with pneumonia.
Pope Francis "is fine" as his medical condition is not life-threatening, but he is not being released from the hospital yet, this doctors in Italy announced.