Renowned Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli said on Tuesday (May 26) he had tested positive for COVDI-19 but was now recovered, calling the experience as “a nightmare”.
Bocelli, who has been blind since age 12, lifted spirits in Italy during the pandemic, which has killed approximately 33,000 people, by singing alone in Milan’s Duomo on April 12.
“It was a tragedy, my whole family was contaminated,” he told journalists at a hospital in Pisa where he had gone with his wife to donate their plasma for COVID-19 research.
“We all had a fever – though thankfully not high ones – with sneezing and coughing,” Bocelli said.
“I had to cancel many concerts … It was like living a nightmare because I felt like I was no longer in control of things. I was hoping to wake up at any moment,” he said.
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