The numbers were encouraging enough for Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) commissioner Willie Marcial.
“We had successful scrimmages of the teams outside of NCR (National Capital Region),” Marcial told Inquirer’s SportsIQ in Filipino, adding the league had been conducting thorough testing, “and out of the 360 players there were only five who tested positive.”
Two of those positive tests were asymptomatic, with the other three exhibiting mild symptoms. All have recovered.
Those numbers gave the league chief optimism that it can convince the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases to give the PBA its approval to hold it…
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