Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi has been moved from intensive care following treatment for a lung infection, his brother has said.
Berlusconi, who has chronic leukaemia, had been hospitalised for treatment and is now on a regular ward at a Milan hospital.
“All okay, he’s out of intensive care,” his brother Paolo told the Corriere della Sera newspaper.
The San Raffaele hospital in Milan
The hospital declined to comment on the report – but said that it would issue a medical bulletin on the 86-year-old’s condition today.
Doctors – including his long-time personal physician – recently revealed that the former three-time premier has chronic leukaemia.
He has also suffered serious heart problems – and in 2020, he was admitted to the same hospital in critical condition for treatment of COVID-19.
After being discharged from a 10-day hospital stay, he said the disease had been “insidious” and was the most dangerous challenge he had ever faced.
His Forza Italia party – which he founded about 30 years ago – and Matteo Salvini’s Anti-Migrant League, are junior partners in the government led by far-right prime minister Giorgia Meloni. But Mr Berlusconi holds no government role.
He stepped down as prime minister for the last time in 2011 as Italy came close to a Greece-style debt crisis and he faced numerous scandals, most notably around his notorious “bunga bunga” parties.
