Gators football sees no new COVID-19 cases this week

There were 462 total tests within the department in the last week, and only two returned positive cases, a rate of just 0.4 percent.

The newest COVID-19 testing data from the University of Florida Athletic Association is good news for the program.

There have been no new positive cases on the football team this week, as of Monday.

The team conducted 274 tests between Sept. 21 and Sept. 28, and none of them returned a positive result. The outlook is good for the athletic department in general, as well.

There were 462 total tests within the department in the last week, and only two returned positive cases, a rate of just 0.4 percent.

This comes just two weeks after 61 positive tests in a six-day span shut down operations for the baseball team and lacrosse team, who accounted for a combined 46 of those cases.

It appears that after suffering severe outbreaks earlier in the month, the Gators program is now doing a better job of containing the spread of the virus. It just remains to be seen how capable it will be of maintaining the same standards over the course of a season.

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