Berlusconi Transferred From ICU to Common Ward, Household Says

ROME (AP) — Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, who has chronic leukemia, has been transferred from an intensive care unit to an everyday ward at a Milan hospital, the place he’s being treated for a lung infection, his brother was quoted as saying on Sunday.

“All OK, he is out of intensive care,” Milan each day Corriere della Sera quoted Paolo Berlusconi as saying earlier than visiting his 86-year-old sibling at San Raffaele hospital.

Italian information company LaPresse additionally mentioned the brother confirmed the switch out of the ICU on the hospital, the place he was admitted on April 5.

The hospital declined to touch upon the report, however mentioned that it could challenge a medical bulletin on Berlusconi’s situation on Monday.

Matteo Salvini, a longtime right-wing ally of Berlusconi, and presently a authorities minister, tweeted “Good luck, Silvio, my pal” and linked his needs within the tweet to Corriere’s report.

Berlusconi was hospitalized for remedy of what his medical doctors mentioned is a lung an infection. Throughout his hospitalization, his medical doctors, together with his longtime private doctor, revealed publicly that the previous three-time premier has continual leukemia.

In previous years, Berlusconi has additionally suffered critical coronary heart issues, and in 2020 was admitted to the identical hospital, in vital situation, for remedy of COVID-19.

His Forza Italia get together, which he based round 30 years in the past, and Salvini’s anti-migrant League, are junior companions within the authorities led by far-right Premier Giorgia Meloni. Not like Salvini, who’s infrastructure and transport minister, Berlusconi holds no authorities position.

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