(ANSA) - GENOA, 05 JAN - Antonio Cassano is hospitalized for covid in the infectious disease ward of the San Martino hospital in Genoa.
The former Italian was hospitalized on January 2 after staying at home for a few days with covid symptoms.
Cassano is vaccinated with two doses.
His conditions improved immediately and "tomorrow he will return home", the general director of San Martino Salvatore Giuffrida told ANSA.
"When it arrived it had a saturation of 95".
Cassano after consulting the attending physician called the hospital.
"He went directly to the infectious diseases department and was taken over by Professor Matteo Bassetti. He arrived - explains the director Giuffrida - through the fast track protocol, signed with general practitioners who report almost certain cases of covid avoiding the sick to go to the emergency room, streamlining the path and lightening the first aid ".
Cassano was treated with Remdesivir antiviral