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Italy’s former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, aged 83, has spent a night in hospital in Milan for checks after testing constructive for the coronavirus.
His right-wing Forza Italia social gathering talked about his scenario was not a set off for concern, and “he is efficient”.
The media tycoon and two of his youngsters examined constructive for the virus on Wednesday after holidaying in Sardinia, the place the an an infection price is larger than in a whole lot of Italy.
On Thursday he was staying near Milan.
“A small precautionary hospitalisation was wished to watch the progress of Covid-19 nonetheless he is efficient,” talked about Forza Italia senator Licia Ronzulli.
Berlusconi was transferred to an isolation ward at San Raffaele Hospital on Thursday evening time, from his villa at Arcore, merely north of Milan.
Earlier his personal doctor Alberto Zangrillo described him as asymptomatic.
Italian media report that Berlusconi’s 30-year-old confederate, Marta Fascina, has moreover examined constructive for the virus. Ms Fascina, a Forza Italia MP, has been in self-isolation with him.
Berlusconi despatched a cellphone message to social gathering activists in Genoa on Thursday saying “I’m persevering with to work as best I can on the current election advertising marketing campaign”. Individually, he talked about he did not know how he had caught the virus.
