Coronavirus: Italy ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi in hospital

Italy’s former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, aged 83, has spent an evening in hospital in Milan for checks after testing optimistic for the coronavirus.

His right-wing Forza Italia get together mentioned his situation was not a trigger for concern, and “he’s nice”.

The media tycoon and two of his kids examined optimistic for the virus on Wednesday after holidaying in Sardinia, the place the an infection charge is larger than in a lot of Italy.

On Thursday he was staying close to Milan.

“A small precautionary hospitalisation was wanted to watch the progress of Covid-19 however he’s nice,” mentioned Forza Italia senator Licia Ronzulli.

Berlusconi was transferred to an isolation ward at San Raffaele Hospital on Thursday evening, from his villa at Arcore, simply north of Milan.

Earlier his private physician Alberto Zangrillo described him as asymptomatic.

Italian media report that Berlusconi’s 30-year-old accomplice, Marta Fascina, has additionally examined optimistic for the virus. Ms Fascina, a Forza Italia MP, has been in self-isolation with him.

Berlusconi despatched a cellphone message to get together activists in Genoa on Thursday saying “I am persevering with to work as greatest I can on the present election marketing campaign”. Individually, he mentioned he didn’t know the way he had caught the virus.