ROME – Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi tested positive for COVID-19 after a precautionary check, announced his press on Wednesday.
Berlusconi, 83, is lately away in his Apartment in Arcore near Milan, he said, adding that he would continue painting from there at the end of the mandatory quarantine period.
The three-time prime minister and media mogul was recently photographed with an old friend, businessman Flavio Briatore, who was hospitalized after positive for COVID-19 last month.Berlusconi had tested negative at the time.
Berlusconi recently drew attention to the Italian political scene before regional elections in late September, when his centrist forza Italia party may be very important for a imaginable victory of the centre-right opposition.
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