Officials in Nebraska confirmed the state’s first COVID-19 coronavirus case and took the woman, who had recently traveled to the United Kingdom, to a biocontainment unit on March 6 night.
The 36-year-old woman is “very seriously ill” and was in the Methodist Hospital in Omaha before she was taken to the unit via an ambulance, officials told local news outlets. The unit is located at the University of Nebraska Medical Center campus, and Associated Press photos showed officials in biohazard suits and masks transporting the woman inside an isolation pod into the ambulance.
