MLB announces latest COVID-19 test results |
Tony Crumpton
· · Friday, September 18 2020
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, September 17:
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 12,381. • 2 of these 12,381 samples, which is 0.02%, were new positives. • There were 0 new positives among Major League players and Major League staff members. • Both positive tests were from a single Club’s Alternate Training Site. • Among Major League players, there have been no new positives for 19 consecutive days and in 27 of the last 28 days. • The total number of monitoring samples collected and tested has been 127,718. • 88 of these 127,718 samples, which is 0.07%, have been new positives. • 56 of the 88 positives have been players and 32 have been staff members. • 21 different Clubs have had a Covered Individual test positive during Monitoring Testing.
