Nearly 9 percent of players tested positive for COVID-19 upon returning to their NBA home markets before the opening of training camp, the league and the National Basketball Players Association announced in a joint statement Wednesday.
The tests were administered to 546 players, with 48 yielding positive results (8.8 percent) between Nov. 24-30.
Going by health and safety guidelines provided to teams in the last several days, those results mean that players who develop no symptoms of the virus have to stay away from team facilities for 10 days. Players who are symptomatic cannot return until the symptoms have been gone for 10 days.
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