Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi will leave the Milan hospital where he was being treated after contracting the coronavirus two weeks ago, officials in his Forza Italia party said on Monday.

The 83-year-old was admitted to Milan's San Raffaele hospital on September 4, suffering from mild pneumonia symptoms in both lungs after contracting COVID-19 while on holiday in Sardinia.

Italy, hit by one of Europe's worst outbreaks of COVID-19 with over 288,000 confirmed cases and 35,600 deaths, managed to contain the contagion since a peak in fatalities and infections in March and April.

Reuters