Coronavirus cases rise in the NHL as other sports leagues appear to fall apart.

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Coronavirus cases rise in the NHL as other sports leagues appear to fall apart.
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The National Hockey League has just put out another press release that indicates that they are seeing a continued rise in cases regarding the novel strain of the coronavirus knwon as COVID-19, but thankfully the NHL appears to be handling things a lot better than some of its competitors in the sports world.

First, the NHL's department of public relations published a press release on Monday providing a detailed update regarding their testing procedures, the number of tests that have been administered and the number of positive tests that have been returned as a result of that process. The NHL announced that, as of today, players inside the Phase 2 protocol have been subjected to a whopping 2900 tests and thus far only 23 have come back as positive for COVID-19. However there have also been an additional 12 players who have tested positive outside of the Phase 2 protocol, that being since the NHL opened its facilities on the 8th of June, that brings the total number of positive cases to 35 and this far all players who have tested positive have been self-isolated and have been following the CDC and Health Canada protocols.

On a side note, the NHL continues to maintain its policy of not identifying the players who have tested positive.

Although this may seem like bad news on the surface the NHL appears to be a far better job of handling the current crisis that their rivals in other sports. For example the situation in Major League Baseball seems dire with players and owners clashing over how to salvage the season, and perhaps more importantly how the money will be distributed, and they are also having further issues with testing. Just today it was revealed that Washington Nationals had been forced to cancel practice because they had not received their test results, and a similar situation occurred with the Oakland A's and Anaheim Angels over the weekend as well.

Now to be fair to Major League Baseball they do have far more players to test, the league is reportedly dealing with 14,000 tests at the moment, but it does sound like there is a great deal more unhappiness coming from their players and even talk of the season being cancelled outright.


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