Andrea Ellis ordered some flags to offer her grandmother for Christmas – and opened the package deal to discover a stranger’s used Covid check inside (Image: Andrea Ellis)
A lady who ordered backyard flags as a Christmas current for her grandmother’s backyard was horrified to discover a stranger’s used Covid check within the package deal. Andrea Ellis, from Richmond in Virginia, instructed of her shock at pulling out a plastic bag stamped ‘Biohazard’ with a Covid check pattern inside final week.
Ellis instructed the Quad-City Times: ‘I pulled out the flags and I instructed my aunt, “Look how cute these are. I pulled out the packing slip after which observed one thing deeper contained in the envelope and pulled that out. It was a biohazard bag containing somebody’s Covid-19 check specimen.’
The package deal had come from division retailer Kohl’s, with the Covid check together with a sticker bearing the title and age of the lady who’d taken the check, in addition to the title and deal with of a health care provider’s workplace.
Ellis contacted the lady after discovering her LinkedIn profile, however has but to listen to again from her.
She contacted her native police division in regards to the specimen. An officer arrived to choose it up, however returned moments afterward being instructed he couldn’t settle for it.
Ellis stated: ‘He took it and stated, “I’m undecided what I’m going to do with it.”
‘He left however about quarter-hour later there’s a knock on the door and he’s like, “Right here, I can’t take it. I used to be instructed to deliver it again to you. I can’t let you know what to do with it.”‘
Ellis was lastly capable of do away with the pattern when a consultant from her native Rockland County Well being Division came visiting to choose it up on Sunday.
A vp from Kohl’s additionally contacted Ellis to say he was investigating what had occurred, and vowed to maintain her updated.
She thinks the check could have ended up in her package deal through a third-party firm who handles transport for Kohl’s, and who provide assessments to their employees.
Ellis says she’s going to proceed to attempt to contact the lady who owned the check to alert her to why she by no means obtained a consequence.
Covid has now contaminated 18.05 million Individuals, and killed near 320,000.
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