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Five MLB players positive in this week's coronavirus testing

As Major League Baseball transitions solely to the monitoring phase of testing for the coronavirus, the league and players' union said that five players tested positive for COVID-19 over the past week.

The league and union said in a release Friday that six of 10,548 samples (0.05%) were found to be new positives, with five of those coming from players and one from a staff member. The release noted that there was a five-day stretch without a positive test.

Last week, the intake screening process completed with 58 players and eight staff members testing positive for COVID-19 at a rate of 1.8%. An additional 22 players have tested positive through monitoring testing or intake testing of players added to team pools.

During monitoring testing, players and other individuals classified as Tier 1 are tested every other day, while Tier 2 individuals are tested multiple times per week.