More Major League Baseball games postponed as seven Cardinals players test positive for coronavirus
- St Louis Cardinals announce seven players and six staff members tested positive
- Most are asymptomatic but a few have mild symptoms including low-grade fever
Seven St Louis Cardinals players and six staff members have tested positive for Covid-19, causing Major League Baseball to postpone the team’s four-game series at Detroit.
The series was to have been played at Comerica Park from Tuesday through Thursday.
“You think about how quickly something like this can spread,” Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak said. “Until it touches you, you sometimes might not believe it, but needless to say we know this is very real and we know it moves quickly and it moves silently, but it can infect a lot of people fast.”
Mozeliak said that five of those who tested positive did not show symptoms. He said the others did – headaches, coughs, running noses and low-grade fever.
“And of those eight, it’s a variety of symptoms but nothing at this point requiring anything like hospitalisation,” Mozeliak said.