The first confirmed case of coronavirus out of Columbus, Ohio is a patient who traveled to New Orleans to go on a cruise to Mexico, according to a report from the Columbus Dispatch.

The Ohio capital's newspaper reported that the 49-year-old man tested positive for coronavirus after joining a Carnival cruise in New Orleans on Feb. 29 and returning to the Crescent City on March 5. He took the cruise to Cozumel and the Yucatan, the Dispatch said.

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When he arrived back to his home city in Ohio on March 6, he began feeling the symptoms of coronavirus. Columbus health officials told the Dispatch that he was isolated and recuperating.

A total of four people who have had close contact with the man are being monitored for at this time. Though it isn't immediately clear how many people were on the cruise ship with the patient, officials told the newspaper they believe he traveled on the cruise with a group from central Ohio.

The patient is the first person in Columbus to be diagnosed with coronavirus and joins 25 other Ohio residents who also tested positive for COVID-19.

A few out-of-state residents who visited New Orleans during Mardi Gras have also tested positive for coronavirus. Inside Louisiana, state officials confirmed Saturday that one person has died from coronavirus, while 77 patients have tested positive.

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