Corona concern in Italy: Berlusconi entered the clinic – first details about the condition – “We are all with you!”

Update September 4 at 3:15 pm.: More and more details about Silvio Berlusconi corona disease Become recognized. The former prime minister of Italy lies about his COVID-19 contagion meanwhile in a hospital in Milan.

Like the Italian news agency Ansa reported bilateral disease in the 83-year-old lung infection detected. The transmitter Italy sky reports, however, that Berlusconi is not in the intensive care unit, but has trouble breathing.

Coronavirus pandemic in Italy: Silvio Berlusconi infected belongs to the corona risk group

Update September 4 at 11.50 am.: Italy cares about Silvio Berlusconi. The four-time Prime Minister is due to a Corona infection shortly after midnight from Thursday to Friday admitted to the San Raffaele clinic in Milan. Initial investigations would have shown the appearance of pneumonia.

The Italian newspapers La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera reported unanimously. On Wednesday it was learned that the 83-year-old man had a positive effect on the pathogen SARS-CoV-2 it had been tested.

Due to his advanced age, the conservative politician belongs to the Corona Risk Group.

He is reportedly not in the intensive care unit, he is being cared for by his private doctor, it is said. Senator Licia Ronzulli of Berlusconis Political party Go Italy explained to the television station RAI: “The night had a good time.” Eye-catching: Your party participated Twitter an emotional message: “Siamo tutti with Silvio!” In German: “We are all with Silvio!”

Berlusconi after his stay at his villa, he had to sardinischen Costa Smeralda get tested. There, according to the image, he should, among other things, contact the former head of Formula 1 and owner of the nightclub. Flavio briatore (70 years) – even Briatore has been positive for the insidious Coronavirus tried.

Coronavirus pandemic in Italy: Silvio Berlusconi quarantined for corona

Update September 3 at 6:33 am: Former Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi is on its own positive for that new coronavirus has been tested. He is at home in quarantine, but continue your political activities, he said 84 years on Wednesday in a videoconference of his right-wing opposition party Go Italy. “I will be present in the electoral campaign with interviews on television and in newspapers,” he announced. In two weeks it will take place in Italy Regional elections instead of.

According to his doctor, Berlusconi is “Asymptomatic”. It was first tested on August 25 after returning from a holiday in Sardinia where she had a Luxury property has. The result was negative. However, after some of the people Berlusconi met on the Italian island tested positive, Berlusconi was tested again.

Video: Silvio Berlusconi has contracted the coronavirus

Italy came as a surprise after the Corona catastrophe in the spring, and remains intransigent like almost no other EU country.

Original report from September 2: Munich / Rome / Bardolino – Pictures have changed in the Corona-Pandemie* Etched in the collective memory of many people: Italian army trucks carrying rows of coffins COVID-19*-Kill outside Bergamo road transporters.

It is cited as a reason why no one is on the topic. Coronavirus he is more uncompromising and disciplined than the Italians. Because: While in other European countries Crown*-Numbers shoot again are the diaries New Covid-19 infections in Italy constant.

Corona in Italy: uncompromising due to Covid-19

According to Johns Hopkins University, these values ​​were recently below 1000 and therefore also significantly below the values ​​in Germany (1300 to 1500). A comparison: Spain has the number of new every day Corona cases according to the same source in more than 7000.

An example of intransigence in Italy: Diego Frederici had both parents in March Crown lost. “We don’t even know if it’s them in the cemetery. We were not allowed to identify their bodies. They didn’t allow us, ”the young Italian told ZDF in a report.

He is a member of a Facebook group that is protesting. Her name: “Noi Denunceremo – We accuse”. Notable: Facebook group has filed a complaint with the Public Ministry. But not for that Crown constraints. They believe a curfew should have been imposed much earlier, while in other parts of Europe thousands of people take to the streets to oppose Covid-19 protection measures to protest. For example in Berlin.

Corona in Italy: people everywhere wear face masks

Italy is drawn and has clearly learned from the lessons of spring, he wants to avoid a new crown wave at all costs. Taking a fever and wearing one Mask they are noisy ZDF even in the central cemetery of Bergamo Required. Where they buried many of their dead. The report shows that too.

Clubs and beach bars, on the other hand, had to close again in mid-August after a corona outbreak occurred at a Sardinian nightclub.

And from 6 o’clock in the afternoon, everywhere in the open air, where many people gather, Mask requirement – at the national level. It is a requirement that most citizens diligently comply with. In France, however, the mask requirement only applies in individual cities like Nice, in Austria it is in the Crown-Krise it is currently not prescribed at all.

Italy: Corona prevention takes priority over tourism

the Covid-19 prevention goes so far that the residents of the small Italian holiday island Stromboli they have come out in favor of limiting tourism. “We don’t want to scare away tourists. But we want their numbers to be regulated, ”said the co-organizer of a recent protest. Around 150 residents and vacationers gathered there on August 25 to demonstrate against an “invasion” of the island by daytime tourists.

Italy was the for a long time Corona-Hotspot absolutely. Citizens and politicians seem to have learned, and successfully. (p.m) * Merkur.de is part of the German Ippen digital publishing network

Because she is unable to cover her vital hole in her throat due to cancer, a woman was thrown from a playroom.

Headline image: © Ettore Ferrari / dpa