Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association jointly announced today the latest COVID-19 testing results under MLB’s COVID-19 Health Monitoring & Testing Plan, through the end of Thursday, October 8th:

MONITORING TESTING

• Covered Individuals are now in Monitoring Testing. To date, the results of Monitoring Testing are as follows:

• The number of monitoring samples collected and tested in the past week was 8,096.

• There were 0 new positives among these 8,096 samples.

• Among Major League players, there have now been no new positives for 40 consecutive days and in 48 of the last 49 days.

• The total number of monitoring samples collected and tested to date has been 164,117.

-- 91 of these 164,117 samples, which is 0.06%, have been new positives.

-- 57 of the 91 positives have been players and 34 have been staff members.

-- 21 different Clubs have had a Covered Individual test positive during Monitoring Testing.