Former health minister Beatrice
Lorenzin on Monday tested positive for COVID.19.
"Yes, I'm positive," she told ANSA.
"When I got the the first symptoms I immediately carried out the
test that confirmed the positivity for COVID.
"If I got it, who have always been careful, I have always used a
face mask, I have to say that COVID is an ugly beast".
Lorenzin is a member of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD).
She started her political career in ex-premier and media magnate
Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right Forza Italia (FI) party.
Lorenzin is Italy's longest serving health minister.
She served in three straight centre-left administrations, from
2013 to 2018.
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