Positive test becomes second active case on-campus
By Tom Seipp, Sports Editor
A St. Bonaventure University student- athlete tested positive for COVID-19 Monday, according to the Bonaventure athletic department. It’s the second student to test positive since classes began.
The athletic department said that the individual is asymptomatic and returned a negative result on the university’s Sophia-2 antigen testing machine Monday. The athlete also had a PCR test on Monday, which came back RESULT. With the news of the positive case coming in at approximately 10:30 a.m. Monday, it led to the athletics
department canceling all workouts immediately. Tuesday, workout activities resumed. Members of the men’s basketball team worked out on Monday morning, but there have been no workouts for that team since.
A member of the women’s basketball team was also placed into quarantine due to “close contact with the individual who tested positive,” according to a source. It’s unknown how many total athletes were placed into quarantine or how many teams are involved. The Cattaraugus County Health Department, along with Bonaventure administrators, went through a “thorough contact tracing investigation for those individuals the student has been in contact with and the places the student has visited,” the Athletic Department said. “The university will provide quarantine space for those determined to be close contacts.”
The Bonaventure athletic department said they will “not be disclosing test data on a team-by-team basis,” but they will release test data for the department as a whole.
Bonaventure and Cattaraugus County administered approximately 320
PCR COVID-19 tests on both Sept. 1 and 2. It was the first on-campus group testing since the beginning of classes. SBU had previously tested three students with a PCR test, all came back negative.
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