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Italian opera singer Andrea Bocelli who recently revealed that he had contracted COVID-19 and fully recovered had a few harsh words about the countrys lockdown measures during the pandemic, according to a report. The 61-year-old star said he felt humiliated and offended by the measures, saying, I could not leave the house even though I had committed no crime, the BBC reported. Bocelli also admitted that he had disobeyed the lockdown rules and believed that the severity of the pandemic, which has killed more than 35,000 Italians, had been overblown, according to the news outlet. It was unclear from the report when he ignored the rules. In May, he said he had made aswift and full recovery from the disease, which he contracted in March, and has donated his blood to help vaccine research. Bocelli made his most recent comments at a conference in Italys Senate attended by opposition politicians including Matteo Salvini, leader of the far-right League party, who has attacked the government of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte over the handling of the health crisis in the country. Italy imposed a national lockdown in early March and eased it in stages in the following months. Bocelli, 61, said he disobeyed lockdown rules because I did not think it was right or healthy to stay home at my age, adding that I am a certain age and I need sun and vitamin D. He also suggested that others should refuse to follow the rules. Bocelli added that the outbreak had been overblown and he didnt know anyone in intensive care. So what was all this sense of gravity for? he said. Lets refuse to follow this rule. Lets read books, move around, get to know each other, talk, dialogue. He also slammed the governments approach to reopening schools. I have an eight-year-old daughter and its unthinkable that these children will have to go to school divided by a piece of plexiglass and hidden behind a mask,
