Denmark announces first coronavirus death, closes borders to foreigners

Denmark on Saturday recorded its first coronavirus passing as it shut its outskirts to outsiders to slow the spread of the sickness.

The casualty "was an individual matured 81 years who was hospitalised for different genuine ailments," said authorities at the medical clinic where the patient was dealt with.

The passing is the fifth COVID-19 casualty in the Nordic nations. Two individuals have as of now kicked the bucket in Sweden and two in Norway.

Denmark additionally turned into the most recent nation to find a way to stop the spread of the COVID-19 malady, shutting its outskirts to all non-inhabitant outsiders for a month.

"All travellers and outsiders who can't demonstrate that they have a substantial motivation to come to Denmark won't be permitted to enter," Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Friday when the boycott was declared.

Police said that around 20 individuals were rejected passage after the measure happened around early afternoon Saturday (1100 GMT).

At Copenhagen air terminal, travellers said that strict controls were set up for those entering the nation.

Just Danes and other changeless occupants were let through, just as others with a "convincing explanation" to come into the nation.

Trade of imports and exports are not influenced.

The administration on Wednesday divulged a series of measures to constrain the effect of the pandemic, which has now observed more than 150,000 overall contaminated with COVID-19 and caused more than 5,000 passings.

Schools, colleges and libraries have been shut in Denmark, and government employees have been approached to remain at home.