Italy’s Berlusconi Leaves Hospital After ‘Dangerous’ COVID Battle

Italy’s Berlusconi Leaves Hospital After ‘Dangerous’ COVID Battle
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi gestures as he is discharged from 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, on Sept. 14, 2020. Flavio Lo Scalzo/Reuters
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MILAN—Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi left hospital on Monday after overcoming coronavirus, saying he had survived “the most dangerous challenge” of his life.

“I said to myself, with satisfaction, ‘You have got away with it again’,” a smiling Berlusconi told reporters at the gates of Milan’s San Raffaele hospital, where he was admitted on Sept. 3, after testing positive for COVID-19.