NE
First Nebraskan tests positive for coronavirus
(CDC)
Posted: Fri 3:47 PM, Mar 06, 2020 |
Updated: Fri 4:24 PM, Mar 06, 2020
OMAHA, Neb. (KOLN) - The first Nebraskan to test positive for the coronavirus is a 36-year-old Omaha woman who was travelling in the United Kingdom.
Officials said Friday that the patient was in the United Kingdom with her father from Feb. 18 to Feb. 27. The patient went to a local medical facility emergency department Thursday for a respiratory infection that had been going on for 12 days.
Her symptoms were mild but got worse Thursday. She has serious pneumonia-like symptoms, as well as a secondary bacterial infection. She is being transferred to the biocontainment unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
It is currently unknown whether the patient’s immediate family members have been exposed. An investigation is underway by an epidemiology team to see who else this individual has had contact with and where.
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VA
Commonwealth of Virginia Reports First COVID-19 Death
in the Peninsula Health District
(Richmond, Va.) — Today, the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) and the Peninsula Health District reported the death of a hospitalized patient who previously tested positive for COVID-19. This event marks the first death in the Commonwealth of Virginia due to COVID-19.
The patient was a male in his 70s who acquired COVID-19 through an unknown source. The cause of death was respiratory failure as a result of COVID-19.