OMAHA - A 59-year-old Omaha man and a Hall County woman in her 60s have died from the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, officials said Friday in announcing the state’s first two COVID-19 deaths. On Monday the Department of Health and Human Services announced that a Lincoln County man in his 90s with underlying health conditions became the third Nebraska citizen to die from the virus.

In a press release Friday afternoon, Douglas County health officials didn’t confirm the Omaha man’s specific age but said a man in his 50s with “serious underlying health conditions” was the first COVID-19 death in Douglas County. He died earlier this week.

Friday evening, the Central District Health Department reported “with deep sadness” that a hospitalized Hall County woman with underlying health problems had died Thursday of COVID-19. The woman was the third case of COVID-19 confirmed in Hall County, said Teresa Anderson, the director of the Central District Health Department.

DHHS also announced that Scotts Bluff County's first case, which was announced Sunday, was community-spread.First cases of COVID-19 were also reported in York, Kimball and Antelope counties, bringing the state's total cases to 155.

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