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		</div><p>Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi, who has a history of heart and other medical problems, has been admitted to hospital as a precaution to monitor his coronavirus infection, a senior aide said.</p>
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<p>Lucia Ronzulli told RAI state TV that the media mogul, 83, who tested positive for Covid-19 earlier in the week, was doing well and was undergoing “precautionary monitoring” of his infection.<br />
“He passed the night well,” she said.</p>
<p>State radio later said Mr Berlusconi had been admitted to San Raffaele hospital in Milan, where his private doctor is based, shortly after midnight.<br />
Sky TG24, reporting from outside the hospital, said Mr Berlusconi had the “beginnings of pneumonia” and was given an oxygen mask to aid breathing.</p>
<p>Italian media have stressed he is not in intensive care. Sky said he arrived by private car and walked into the hospital, where he had a CT scan shortly after arrival.</p>
<figure id="attachment_161518" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-161518" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/FDF62588-5B23-46F1-87F0-60A4C6967289.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" class="size-full wp-image-161518" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-161518" class="wp-caption-text">Silvio Berlusconi</figcaption></figure>
<p>On Thursday, Mr Berlusconi, speaking in a strong but nasal voice from his estate on the outskirts of the city, told his supporters he no longer had fever or pain.<br />
Italian media have said two of his adult children were recently diagnosed with Covid-19 and are self-isolating.</p>
<p>“Unfortunately this isn’t a cold,” La Stampa newspaper reported him saying on Thursday. ”Now it touches me — but not only me, but also my family — I realise more than ever how grave” the pandemic is.</p>
<p>“I’m aware of how much sorrow it has sowed in so many families, of how much pain it has caused so many people. I think of all those who aren’t here any more, I think of those who lost their loved ones,” he said.<br />
He was further quoted as saying that earlier in the week, as well as fever, he had muscle and bone pain, “but it passed”.</p>
<p>In 1997, he was successfully treated for prostate cancer, including by surgery. In 2006, he had heart tests at San Raffaele after fainting during a speech. A few weeks later he was fitted with a pacemaker at a US hospital.</p>
<p>He also has had bowel surgery for an obstruction and suffered an inflammatory eye condition.<br />
Mr Berlusconi spent some of his summer holiday at his seaside villa on Sardinia’s Emerald Coast. Many of Italy’s recent cases of Covid-19 have been linked to clusters in people who took holidays on Sardinia.</p>
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<p>According to Italian media, at the urging of family members, he spent a few weeks at another one of his villas, in France, early in Italy’s Covid-19 outbreak, which was particularly devastating in Lombardy, where Mr Berlusconi’s home and business empire is based.</p>
<p>On Thursday, the three-time former premier vowed to keep campaigning in upcoming regional elections in Italy for the centre-right Forza Italia party that he created more than 25 years ago.<br />
The party has steadily lost popularity with voters in recent years as Mr Berlusconi battled legal problems linked to his media business and his infamous “bunga bunga parties”.</p>
<p>After being convicted of tax fraud in 2013, he had to surrender his Senate seat. He is currently a legislator in the European Parliament.</p>
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