Reports: Berlusconi hospitalized with respiratory problems

ROME (AP) — Italian news reports say former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has been hospitalized with respiratory problems. LaPresse news agency, Sky TG24 and Corriere della Sera all reported without citing sources that the 86-year-old three-time premier is in intensive care at Milan’s San Raffaele hospital. There has been no confirmation from his Forza Italia party. Berlusconi has had a series of health problems in recent years, most recently recovering from COVID-19 in 2020. He told reporters after being discharged from a 10-day hospital stay then that disease had been “insidious” and was the most dangerous challenge he had ever faced. He has had a pacemaker for years, underwent heart surgery to replace an aortic valve in 2016 and has overcome prostate cancer.