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Notre Dame announces 18 new positive tests, 34 total in isolation and quarantine

In the week since an influx of 11 positive coronavirus tests in two days forced Notre Dame to pause all football-related activities, the Irish have added another 18 positive tests. Notre Dame has a total of 25 players in isolation via active positive cases and 14 in quarantine thanks to contact tracing, the program announced Monday.

Six days ago — Tuesday, Sept. 22 — those numbers were 10 and 13, respectively.

September 28 – Testing Update pic.twitter.com/fubn0Dc0qD

— Notre Dame Football PR Team (@NDFootballPR) September 28, 2020

Despite the rise in total numbers, the Irish have been able to get a handle on the extent of this outbreak through the testing and contact tracing in the last week, allowing them to now return to football activities.