Notre Dame delayed its game against Wake Forest, arranged for Saturday, since of an outbreak of COVID-19 on the team. That video game has actually been rescheduled for Dec. 12.
” We knew COVID would provide difficulties throughout the season, and well always put student-athlete health and wellness at the forefront of our choice making,” Irish coach Brian Kelly stated in a statement Tuesday. “We eagerly anticipate resuming group activities and returning on the playing field.”
USF is examining contact tracing from the video game, though CDC standards need contact within 6 feet for greater than 15 minutes to an individual who evaluates positive, and numerous coaches have actually stated common video game conditions would not satisfy this requirements. Prior to the season, both Miami and Virginia Tech conducted studies of practices and discovered that no 2 gamers were most likely to be within the contact radius for higher than 15 minutes.
USF has not revealed a decision on whether Saturdays game against FAU will be played.
A day after Notre Dame delayed its upcoming video game against Wake Forest, its previous challenger, South Florida, called a halt to football activities while it waits for test results for possible coronavirus spread among players.
USF revealed that it was pausing activities up until getting the outcomes of Wednesdays tests, but it said that evaluates done last Friday before its 52-0 loss to Notre Dame as well as Mondays postgame screening led to no positive cases.
The school stated the time out in activities was because of “an abundance of care.”
USF is set up to play FAU this Saturday. FAU has yet to play a video game this season due to the fact that of virus-related scheduling problems.
