Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association announced the latest testing results for COVID-19 under the COVID-19 Testing and Health Monitoring Plan, through the end of Thursday, August 20.
MONITORING TESTS
Covered Individuals are now in Monitoring Tests. To date, the results of the Monitoring Tests are as follows:
–The number of monitoring samples tested in the last week was 12,485.
–Seven of the 12,485 samples, 0.05%, have been new positive.
–Three positive tests were from players and four were from employees.
–Five were employees of Major League Clubs and two were Alternate Camps personnel.
–The total number of monitoring samples tested has been 78,612.
–Eighty-two of those samples, 0.1%, have been new positives.
– Fifty-four of the 82 positives have been from players and 28 have been from employees.
– Nineteen different Clubs have had a positive test from a Covered Individual during the Screening Tests. (GG) (Taken from MLB.com)