2nd case of COVID-19 confirmed in Denmark, 6th case in Austria

A second case of COVID-19 has been confirmed in Denmark, the National Board of Health said in a press release on Friday.

The infected person, according to the statement, returned to Denmark from a ski holiday in northern Italy on Feb. 15, and fell ill in three days.

Following an examination on Friday at the national hospital Rigshospitalet in central Copenhagen, the patient tested positive for novel coronavirus.

"Our strategy remains that we quickly curb the spread of infection by diagnosing COVID-19 and treat the patient in isolation, while at the same time detecting and managing the people who have been in close contact with the infected," said Soren Brostrom, director of National Board of Health.

In line with the Health Authority's guidelines, the patient has been placed in home isolation with daily close control.

In the meantime, the Danish Patient Safety Authority has begun to trace persons who may have been in close contact with the patient.

The first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the country is a man who returned from a family ski trip in northern Italy.

Meanwhile, one more COVID-19 case was confirmed in the Austrian capital late on Friday, bringing the total number of the confirmed cases in the Alpine country to six.

The son of the couple who tested positive for the novel coronavirus Thursday has also tested positive, according to the office of City Councilor Peter Hacker. The couple's daughter has not been infected.

Both children are adolescents. The family is currently in the Kaiser-Franz-Josef hospital. Contrary to previous information, only the father was on vacation in an affected region in Italy, according to local media.

Meanwhile, 181 employees from the Rudolf Foundation, a municipal hospital where the first Viennese coronavirus patient had been treated for flu for ten days before a routine test showed that he was infected, tested negative for the coronavirus.

The other two cases were detected in the western state of Tyrol on Tuesday.