COPENHAGEN, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- 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.
