Italy s Berlusconi back in hospital: party source
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Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has been readmitted to hospital, a source close to his Forza Italia party said Tuesday.
It will be the third time since March, and the fourth this year, that the 84-year-old billionaire and media tycoon has been admitted to hospital.
His latest admission to the San Raffaele hospital in Milan is related to the after-effects of Covid-19, which Berlusconi contracted in September, a second source with knowledge of the matter told AFP.
Antibodies against coronavirus remain for at least eight months, Italian researchers said.
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Antibodies against coronavirus remained in the blood of patients with Covid-19 for at least eight months after they were infected, Italian researchers said Tuesday.
They were present regardless of the severity of the illness, the age of the patients or the presence of other pathologies, according to a statement from the San Raffaele hospital in Milan.
The researchers, working with Italy s ISS national health institute, studied 162 patients with symptomatic coronavirus who turned up at the emergency room during the country s first wave of infections last year.
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Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi speaks to the media as he leaves Milan s San Raffaele hospital, where he was being treated after testing positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and diagnosed with mild pneumonia, in Milan, Italy, September 14, 2020. REUTERS/Flavio Lo Scalzo/File Photo
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was admitted to Milan s San Raffaele hospital overnight, a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
Berlusconi, 84, was last discharged from the same hospital on April 30 after undergoing 24 days of tests. read more
The four-times prime minister had been hospitalised in early April for follow-up tests after contracting the new coronavirus last September.
Former Italian PM Berlusconi admitted to hospital, source says
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was admitted to Milan s San Raffaele hospital overnight, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing a source familiar with the matter.
Berlusconi, 84, was last discharged from the same hospital on April 30 after undergoing 24 days of tests.
The four-times prime minister had been hospitalised in early April for follow-up tests after contracting the new coronavirus last September.
He had previously been hospitalised for routine check-ups in March.
Berlusconi, who underwent major heart surgery in 2016 and has also survived prostate cancer, had also been admitted to hospital in January due to a heart problem.
Rome - Antibodies against coronavirus remained in the blood of patients with COVID-19 for at least eight months after they were infected, Italian researchers said Tuesday.
They were present regardless of the severity of the illness, the age of the patients or the presence of other pathologies, according to a statement from the San Raffaele hospital in Milan.
The researchers, working with Italy s ISS national health institute, studied 162 patients with symptomatic coronavirus who turned up at the emergency room during the country s first wave of infections last year.
Blood samples were taken in March and April and again at the end of November from those who survived. Some 29 patients died.