Berlusconi, admitted with a "mild lung ailment" after testing positive for coronavirus
The three-time Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, who was admitted since last Thursday in Milan for a bilateral pneumonia due to the coronavirus, said:
"I am fighting to get out of this infernal disease"
when intervening by telephone in an electoral rally of the candidate of his party,
Forza Italia
, in the Aosta Valley.
According to the Italian media, the 83-year-old businessman also intervened by telephone from the
San Raffaele hospital in Milan
at the meeting of the group of senators of his party as well as at the rally in Aosta to congratulate and wish luck to the candidates of center right to the next regional elections.
"I am struggling to get out of this hellish disease. It is very ugly. Here at San Raffaele they have done thousands of exams and I was in the top 5 because of the force of the virus. I am doing the best I can and I really hope to achieve it and be able to do it again. the track, "said the Forza Italia leader.
"I am doing everything possible to return to lead our battle as always, especially for the economy, for work, against fiscal and bureaucratic oppression, against unjust justice and against judges who do politics," he added with a weak voice, according to the media.
According to the last medical report,
Berlusconi is progressing favorably
.
"We can confirm the observation of a clinical picture in constant favorable evolution. All the clinical and hematochemical parameters are reassuring," reads the report issued by
Alberto Zangrillo
, head of General Intensive and Cardiovascular Care at the IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital and personal physician of the leader of Forza Italia.
Berlusconi was admitted after testing positive for coronavirus on September 2 and his eldest daughter Marina Berlusconi, 54, president of the family group, Finninvest, who is isolated in Milan with her husband and children, has also tested positive.
According to sources from Forza Italia, the former president and businessman
is "calm" although somewhat "bored"
due to the isolation he is subjected to in a room on the sixth floor of the San Raffaele, where he has already undergone some cardiovascular operations.
Berlusconi tested positive after undergoing a test in Italy when he was returning to his residence in
Arcore
, near Milan, from a trip from France, where he visited his eldest daughter
Marina
.
Previously, another test was carried out, in which it was negative, after learning that the businessman Flavio Briatore, his friend and with whom he had had an encounter in Sardinia, was infected.
Zangrillo explained on Friday that Berlusconi had no symptoms when he underwent the test that showed that he was infected and that he recommended his hospitalization on September 3 as a precaution, after verifying that he had a
mild lung ailment
.
Two other of her children,
Barbara
, 36, and
Luigi
, 31, as well as her current partner, Congresswoman
Marta Fascina
, 30, have also tested positive for coronavirus.
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