Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi discharged from hospital

FILE PHOTO: Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi looks on during the taping of the television talk show "Porta a Porta" (Door to Door) in Rome, Italy, February 14, 2018. /VCG

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been discharged from hospital after more than three weeks of tests, Reuters reports citing an unnamed source close to the matter.

The 84-year-old media tycoon was admitted at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan on April 6, with reports indicating at the time that it was for follow-up tests. The hospital admission came five months after he contracted COVID-19 which he described as "the most dangerous challenge" of his life.

His latest admission was the third this year, having also spent days in a Monaco hospital due to heart problems and again in March for what was said to be a routine check-up.

The former three-time Prime Minister underwent major heart surgery in 2016 and also survived prostate cancer.