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More coronavirus cases announced in Douglas County and Lincoln

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OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) - The Douglas County Health Department said on Friday that preliminary test results show 10 new coronavirus cases in the county.

The cases include eight women and two men. Four of the cases involve individuals in their 20s and 30s, two women in their 40s, a man in his 50s, a woman in her 60s, another woman is in her 80s, and one woman whose age is still to be confirmed.

Four of these individuals had contact with known cases, three resulted from community spread, two are travel-related and one remains to be determined.

There have now been 129 coronavirus cases in Douglas County.

Also on Friday, two more coronavirus cases were reported in Lincoln. One is travel related, a man in his 70s who had been on a cruise and is now hospitalized. His close contacts are in self-quarantine. The other case is community acquired, a woman in her 20s. She is self-isolating, and her close contacts are self-quarantining.

There have been 14 coronavirus cases in Lincoln.