The Virginia athletics department announced on Monday that, out of a total of 1,012 COVID-19 tests administered over the preceding seven days, there were 12 new positive cases, representing a positivity rate of 1.2%. For the first time since July, among those were members of the Virginia Cavaliers football team.
“So, we’d just gone from cheering after every test since early July,” head coach Bronco Mendenhall said in his weekly press conference. “And when I found out and it was late, it was late in the week, and I announced to the team that we had a number of tests, there was like silence and it sounded funny saying it, and the team looked like wait, did he just say that we had some positives and then no one quite knew what to do.