Former Italian premier Berlusconi tests positive for COVID Italy’s former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has tested positive for COVID-19 after a precautionary check and will quarantine at home, his press office saysROME -- Italy’s former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has tested positive for COVID-19 after a precautionary check and will quarantine at home, his press office said on Wednesday. His personal doctor, Alberto Zangrillo, said that the former premier is “asymptomatic,” Italian media reported. Reports said Berlusconi confirmed the news in a private Zoom conversation with the women's movement of Forza Italia, his centrist party. The three-time premier and media tycoon had been recently pictured in Sardinia with an old friend, businessman Flavio Briatore, who was hospitalized after testing positive to COVID-19 in mid August. He made headlines last month after Italian tabloids published pictures of him walking hand-in-hand in Sardinia with his new girlfriend, Forza Italia lawmaker Marta Fascina, who is 53 years his junior.

Source: ABC News September 02, 2020 17:26 UTC