Renewed concern grips Cardinals as another player tests positive for COVID-19; game vs. Cubs postponed – STLtoday.com

Due to seven postponed games, the Cardinals were about to start a stretch of 55 games in 52 days. This postponement makes their schedule entirely uncertain.

Players converged on Busch Stadium from either traveling with the team from Milwuakee or joining the team out of the alternate-site camp in Springfield, Mo. The Cardinals added four players from the alternate-site camp Wednesday to the workouts. All of them had previously undergone regular testing and received negative tests before traveling to join the big-league roster.

On Friday, Major League Baseball and the players' union released the updated information on the ongoing testing of players and staff during the regular season. The leagues call this "monitoring testing."

There have been 13,043 test samples collected in the past week, and of that group 13 have tested positive. That includes seven players and six staff members. The Cardinals are the majority of those positive tests.

On four of the last seven days MLB has not had a new positive, and the Cardinals had three consecutive days of that.

During the regular season, a total of 71 new positives have been revealed from 53,826 samples. That number includes 49 players. Nineteen of the 30 major-league clubs have had at least one positive test during the regular season. The two outbreaks have been with the Marlins and Cardinals.

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