To evoke a battle, from the first official statements, there are three. Him, who is fighting it. Nicola Gypsies, who fought and won it. And Luigi Di Maio, on paper, one of his fiercest political opponents, who publicly acknowledges that strength that has always distinguished him and which will help him win this battle. Late in the evening, when several hours have already passed since the official confirmation of having contracted the coronavirus, Silvio Berlusconi casts his eye distractedly on the list of incoming calls provided by the Arcore secretariat. Check those sockets, note the interlocutors to call back. A truckload of bipartisan messages and calls, in which the name of the Prime Minister Giuseppe also stands out Conte, which had never been seen in Arcore. Not even during the last few years, often punctuated by ailments, operations, hospitalizations, checks. The Forza Italia leader is well and asymptomatic. The proof of his good health he decides to give it himself, just as the news of his positive Covid-19 is making the rounds of the websites. I will be present in the election campaign with interviews on TV and in newspapers, according to the limitations imposed by my positivity to Coronavirus, he says in a telephone connection with the Movimento Azzurro donna. Then the phrase intended for the titolists, unfortunately this also happened to me but I continue the battle, where the last word refers both to the virus and to the showdown that awaits Forza Italia in the regional elections.
Negative with two swabs in a row, made more than a week ago after identifying a cluster practically inside the walls of Villa Certosa (positive daughter Barbara, positive the son Luigi, some nephew positive, without forgetting the now famous visit by Flavio Briatore complete with close-up photos and no masks), Berlusconi is almost astounded when the latest analysis gives the most surprising and worrying results: positive. The examination is repeated for safety by the San Raffaele laboratory but the result does not change. The date to be circled with the red pen is 19 August.
When he realizes that he is surrounded by positive family members at Covid-19 – he who was in fact forced by his daughter to dribble the infection Marina to move to France for a few months – the former prime minister leaves Sardinia and takes refuge in Arcore. The safety measures imposed by the eldest daughter to visit him on the island – where the rare appointments granted were in any case subject to presenting himself with the certificate attesting the guest’s negativity to the swab – do not withstand the impact with the wave of Covid- 19 which falls like a curse on Villa Certosa.
Berlusconi returns to Brianza, isolates himself, fears the arrival of those symptoms now known to all. But they don’t arrive. Having passed the test of the two negative swabs, at that point, the former Prime Minister convinced that he was out of danger. Before his definitive return to Arcore, according to some testimonies, he also returns to France for a few days. On Monday back in Italy, he knows about the appointment with the further precautionary check after his stay in Sardinia, which the official notes speak of. But he doesn’t give it much weight before yesterday’s surprise.
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Voluntary isolation is the fate that now by law touches all those who have come into contact with him. Probably Marta Fascination, certainly the staff of Villa San Martino. To these is also added by Niccol Ghedini, who has met him in the last forty-eight hours and will be swabbed in a few hours. The enlargement or the shrinking of a circle that, for example, does not include Antonio Tajani or group leaders Bernini e Gelmini, who saw Berlusconi for the last time before mid-August. In the family, then, there will be a reconnaissance on how it was possible that a man kept under any risk threshold during Phase 1 caught the virus in Phase 3. But it is not a matter of today, where only one battle counts.
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