MLB players extend streak of no COVID positives to 54 days

Major League Baseball’s postseason bubble succeeded as a defense against vel coronavirus.

MLB players extended ir streak of consecutive days with new COVID-19 tests to 54 through Thursday during a time of rising cases in which of United States.

Players did t have positive tests in 62 of previous 63 days, commissioner’s office said Friday.

re were positive tests among 3,597 samples samples collected in week.

MLB has collected 172,740 samples overall, of which 91 have been positive, or 0.05%.

Fifty-seven of 91 positives have been players, and 21 of 30 teams have h a person covered by monitoring test positive.

eight teams that reached Division Series entered bubble environments and played at neutral sites in hope of minimizing exposure to virus. Los Angeles Dodgers and Tampa Bay Rays will remain in bubble environments through end of World Series.

Im credits: AP