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An Illinois woman was opening a package from Kohl’s when she found a COVID-19 test specimen.
The Associated Press reports that Andrea Ellis had ordered flags for her grandmother’s garden from Kohl’s. She was wrapping Christmas gifts at her aunt’s house in East Moline, Illinois when she tore the padded envelope open to take out the flags that she’d ordered weeks prior from the department store chain.
“I pulled out the flags and I told my aunt, Look how cute these are, ” she said. “I pulled out the packing slip and then noticed something deeper inside the envelope and pulled that out. It was a biohazard bag containing someone s COVID-19 test specimen.”
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Illinois woman finds apparent COVID-19 test specimen in online delivery package
Illinois resident Andrea Ellis was opening a package she ordered for her aunt when she found out that the package also had someone’s COVID-19 test specimen. Updated: December 24, 2020 11:14:13 am
The package reported contained a used nasal swab inside a biohazard bag and identifying information of a person from Virginia. (Picture credit: AP)
An Illinois woman who ordered flags for her grandmother’s garden got a surprise when the package arrived someone’s apparent COVID-19 test specimen.
Andrea Ellis was wrapping Christmas gifts at her aunt’s house in East Moline, in north-western Illinois, when she opened a padded envelope containing the flags she ordered weeks ago from the department store chain Kohl’s, according to The Quad-City Times.