BREAKING Bears Cancel Morning Practice Because Of Positive COVID-19 Tests.
It was a confusing last couple of hours at Halas Hall.It unfortunately ended with Sunday's practice being canceled. After nine positive COVID-19 tests popped up from Saturday and which were later labeled as false positives, the Bears pushed practice from Sunday morning to Sunday afternoon just to make sure things are under control. «This morning we learned yesterday's Covid-19 testing identified nine players/staff as positive,» the club said in a statement. «We followed additional NFL-NFLPA testing protocol and confirmed all nine results as false positives. Out of an abundance of caution, we postponed this morning's practice to this afternoon.»
Practice was moved from 9:30AM to 1:30PM. There Bears weren't the only team that had some trouble with tests the NFL revealed in a statement. «Saturday's daily COVID testing returned several positives tests from each of the clubs serviced by the same laboratory in New Jersey. We are working with our testing partner, BioReference, to investigate these results, while the clubs work to confirm or rule out the positive tests. Clubs are taking immediate precautionary measures as outlined in the NFL-NFLPA's health and safety protocols to include contact tracing, isolation of individuals and temporarily adjusting the schedule, where appropriate. The other laboratories used for NFL testing have not had similar results.»
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