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Illinois Woman Finds Biohazard Bag with Covid-19 Test Specimen in Package from Department Store
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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.
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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.
UpdatedTue, Dec 22, 2020 at 8:40 am CT
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A woman was wrapping Christmas presents when she said she found a COVID-19 test specimen in a package she ordered from Kohl s. (Shutterstock)
ILLINOIS 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 northwestern 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. 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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CHICAGO (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 northwestern 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. “I pulled out the flags and I told…
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