Well, it was mostly Germany, Austria, Slovenia and France that started to close borders and claiming the first European contagion was Italian, but do you want to know the truth?
The first infected was a German man, who for work traveled from Wuhan area in China to Germany, to Northern Italy. He infected a lot of people back in January, but the Germans did not realize it, because they began to make tampons long after we Italians. This is why it seems that the European epidemic started here: we were the first to notice it, thanks to our extraordinary doctors and a system that fortunately is not yet too disastrous!