Two players were among the five positive COVID-19 cases in the weekly test results released Friday by Major League Baseball and the Players Association.
Out of a total of 10,308 monitoring tests conducted on players and staff members, Friday’s numbers equate to a positive rate of 0.05 percent.
To date, there have been 59 positive tests (32 players and 27 staff members) out of 166,584 monitoring tests for a positive rate of 0.035 percent.
Twenty-two different teams have had at least one person test positive during the monitoring phase.
An independent laboratory in Utah analyzes the tests.