SOUTH BEND, Indiana – Notre Dame’s self-imposed football practice break lasted two days on Thursday after its combined two-round COVID-19 rounds this week.
The full list of 116 men (including those who did not walk) took the test on Monday and Wednesday. The cumulative result of those 232 is positive in five. These five players are all isolated. Six other players, known through touch search, are quarantined.
The only guarantee related to football for Friday so far is that there will be a third test circular that week to be held that morning, according to a report from the sports department. The practice will resume when the team’s medical staff proposes that it be performed safely.
The Irish are expected to open the 2020 season on September 12 Duke at Notre Dame Stadium.
Between mid-June and the return of the general student population to campus on August 3, the football team had recorded two positive tests. Since academics were backed up, the team has added seven, for a total of nine positive points. This is still calculated at a positivity rate of 1.1%, well below the Indiana state’s seven-day moving average of 7.7%.
In-person categories for the fall semester began on campus on August 10. On Tuesday, the university’s president, the Rev. John I. Jenkins, announced that starting Wednesday, the school would move to online learning for two weeks. An increase in COVID-19 instances among the general student population cited as the explanation of the move. And if until September 2, there is no significant drop in cases and positivity rates, Jenkins has promised to send academics home for the rest of the semester.
Wednesday’s student check figures, revealed Thursday on the university’s coronavirus control panel, showed 75 new positives in a record 494 controls. The daily positivity rate of 15.2% below Tuesday’s record high of 20.6% and 19.5% on Monday.
Jenkins, first of all, gave the football team permission to continue training, but with “great caution,” the sports industry canceled Wednesday’s practice and warned that Thursday’s practice could also not take a stand.
Thursday is a reality.
The Irish education camp on 12 August.