The team does not identify the players and have closed affected areas of its training facility.
Three members of the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers have tested positive for the novel coronavirus at the team’s training facility, and the Bucs have closed affected areas of the building.
The team said those areas will remain closed until extensive sanitizing is completed.
All individuals who may have been exposed have been notified, the Bucs said in a statement, “and are following the established protocols, which include a 14-day quarantine period.” The team did not identify three people who tested positive.
Team headquarters is remaining open under the first phase of the NFL’s reopening plan.
Earlier this week, the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning closed their facility after three players and two staff members tested positive.
The team, which is under pressure to change its name during the ongoing national reckoning over racism, said that Mitchell’s No. 49 will become only the second jersey in the franchise’s 88-year history to be retired. The other is the No.
