The first death from nCoV in Austria was a 69-year-old man in the capital Vienna.

The fatal patient had once traveled to Italy and had acquired underlying illnesses with nCoV infection, the Vienna city government announced today.

Austria has recorded 302 positive nCoV cases, of which 4 have recovered. The country is taking active measures to prevent the virus from spreading to neighboring Italy, the world's second-highest recorded nCoV deaths after China. Border controls are being implemented and house gatherings of more than 100 people are prohibited with very few exceptions.

Covid-19 originated in Wuhan, China in December 2019, appeared in 125 countries and territories, leaving more than 126,000 people infected, more than 4,600 dead and more than 68,000 people recovered.

Disease outbreaks have occurred in every EU country but the European countries' countermeasures are thought to be heterogeneous and unrelated to the actual size of the epidemic.

Greece and the Czech Republic have announced the closure of entire schools, although each country has recorded only a few dozen cases of nCoV, much less than some of its regional neighbors. Spain, one of the major epidemic areas in Europe, with more than 1,600 cases and more than 30 deaths from nCoV, also closed all educational institutions in the Madrid region, but not nationwide.

Italy, which has recorded more than 12,000 infected people, more than 800 died, has issued a nationwide blockade order since March 9. Experts, meanwhile, warned Britain could enter Italy's "car crash" when it did not take any drastic measures to prevent the virus from spreading. He recorded more than 450 cases, 8 died and 18 recovered.