Ohio State has received the green light for this weekend’s football game at Michigan State, announced Friday afternoon.
They will take a charter flight to East Lansing on Friday night before the start at noon on Saturday.
The announcement came a week after an outbreak of coronavirus cases led the Buckeyes to suspend team activities for 3 days, canceling a game in Illinois, the time in 3 weeks, a canceled game.
“We are confident that we are heading to East Lansing with a team capable of competing safely and whose health, protection and well-being have been our main concern,” team doctor Jim Borchers said in a statement. monitored and evaluated our effects on a basis and pleaded with students-athletes, coaches and functionality staff accordingly. “
Borchers added that the positive rate of Ohio state population had “returned to the seven-day moving average at a point where we can compete safely this weekend. “
Last week, the positive population rate exceeded 7. 5%, a threshold at which the Big Ten call on groups to continue cautiously and strengthen their precautions against COVID-19. The overall population of the Buckeyes program is 170 players, coaches and staff who are tested daily for the virus
The state of Ohio has not said how many others on the show have tested positive for COVID-19 beyond coach Ryan Day, who would possibly not oppose the state of Michigan.
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