TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey officials say a nurse who was quarantined after working in West Africa with Ebola patients is being released.
The state Health Department said in a statement Monday that Kaci Hickox had been symptom-free for 24 hours and would be taken on a private carrier to Maine.
N.J. Gov. Chris Christie also tweeted out the Health Department's statement about Hickox's release on Monday:
Hickox has complained about her treatment in N.J. and was talking about suing. She was the first person forced into a mandatory quarantine in the state, announced Friday by Christie for people arriving at Newark Liberty International Airport from three West African countries.
In a Dallas Morning News op-ed on Saturday, Hickox criticized her treatment, saying "no one seemed to be in charge" while she was quarantined.
"I wondered what I had done wrong," she wrote.
Hickox also criticized Christie during a call with CNN on Sunday.
"First of all, I don’t think he's a doctor. And secondly, he's never laid eyes on me," Hickox said.
Norman Siegel, a prominent civil rights attorney, told the New York Times Sunday he'd been hired by Hickox to file a federal lawsuit over her quarantine.
UPDATE -- 2:23PM: Hickox was released from the Newark hospital later Monday, according to ABC News reporter Aaron Katersky.