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MLB announces latest COVID-19 test results

MLB announces latest COVID-19 test results


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Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association jointly announced today the latest COVID-19 testing results under MLB’s COVID-19 Health Monitoring & Testing Plan, through the end of Thursday, August 13th:

MONITORING TESTING

Covered Individuals are now in Monitoring Testing. To date, the results of Monitoring Testing are as follows:

• The number of monitoring samples collected and tested in the past week was 12,301.

• 4 of these 12,301 samples, which is 0.03%, have been new positives.

--2 positives were players and 2 were staff members.

-- All 4 of these positives were from a single MLB Club; the other 29 Clubs had 0 positives.

• The total number of monitoring samples collected and tested has been 66,127.

-- 75 of these 66,127 samples, which is 0.1%, have been new positives.

-- 51 of the 75 positives have been players and 24 have been staff members.

• 19 different Clubs have had a Covered Individual test positive during Monitoring Testing.

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