Tutu re-admitted to hospital

South African archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu, has been taken back to the hospital following a persistent infection barely a week after being discharged for the same ailment.

“Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has been re-admitted to a hospital in Cape Town…”

The Desmond and Tutu Legacy Foundation confirmed the Arch was re-admitted this afternoon after he expressed renewed discomfort. He had been discharged from the hospital on July 21.

A foundation statement quotes Tutu’s daughter, Mpho, as saying the hospitalization is not related to her father’s treatment for cancer.

The 83-year-old Nobel peace laureate cancelled a planned trip to Rome in December following another infection. Tutu will stay under supervised bed rest until at least the weekend as doctors determine the next steps, she said.

Officially retired, he is still outspoken on the world’s injustices, and is widely viewed as South Africa’s moral compass. The anti-apartheid activist survived polio as a baby and tuberculosis as a teen, and has lived with prostate cancer for the last 15 years, according to the Guardian.