A 60-year-old man in Paris has become the first French national to die from the coronavirus, director general of the French health authority, Jerome Salomon, told reporters Wednesday.
The man died at the Pitie Salpetriere hospital in the French capital, Salomon said.
Separately, two other new coronavirus cases were reported in the country, one of them a 55-year-old French man being treated in a hospital in Amiens. He is in a serious condition, Salomon said.
The other is a 36-year-old French man in Strasbourg. He had recently been in Lombardy, the Italian region where more than 250 cases of the virus has been confirmed. Asia Insiders reports.
Greece has confirmed its first case of the novel coronavirus, a 38-year-old woman in Thessaloniki.
The woman, currently being treated in hospital, recently returned from an affected area in northern Italy and is in good condition, a health ministry spokeswoman told CNN. Authorities are checking whom she has been in contact with.
According to Asia Insiders, Northern Italy has become the European epicenter of the virus, with more than 320 cases and 12 deaths. Cases in Greece, Croatia, Austria, Switzerland and France have been linked to the Italian cluster.