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Two US Pro Basketball Stars Test Positive for COVID-19

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   A month before the National Basketball Association is set to resume its
   novel coronavirus-shortened season, two key members of the league's
   Brooklyn Nets franchise have tested positive for the disease caused by
   the virus.

   The team said DeAndre Jordan and Spencer Dinwiddie tested positive for
   COVID-19 since returning to the New York City borough last week for
   workouts at the team's practice facility.

   Jordan issued a [1]statement on Twitter confirming his diagnosis and
   saying he would not join the team when the NBA resumes the regular
   season at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida on July 30.

   [2]Dinwiddie said on Twitter that he is still planning to be with the
   Nets in Orlando, but acknowledges that he is "one of the cases that has
   various symptoms."

   Jordan and Dinwiddie are the latest NBA players to test positive for
   COVID-19 since members of the 22 teams who are in contention for the
   playoffs began reporting for workouts. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver
   announced last Friday that 16 of 302 NBA players have tested positive
   for COVID-19 since reporting back to their practice facilities. Four
   Nets players tested positive back in March in the early days of the
   outbreak, including All-Star Kevin Durant, who has been sidelined all
   season with a foot injury.

   Florida is one of dozens of states who have experienced a dramatic
   surge of new COVID-19 infections in the United States, which now stands
   at over 2.5 million people with over 126,000 deaths. Many states have
   slowed or halted plans to reopen their economies to normal activity,
   including closing beaches and bars and cancelling plans to resume
   indoor dining at restaurants.

   Dr. Anne Schuchat, a leading infectious disease expert at the U.S.
   Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Monday the novel
   coronavirus is spreading too fast and across too many places in the
   United States to bring it under control.

   Dr. Schuchat called the surge in new cases just "the beginning," and
   said new cases are not being rapidly identified and isolated with
   proper contact tracing. She appealed to people to wear masks, practice
   social distancing and not to expect any kind of relief until there's a
   vaccine.

References

   1. https://twitter.com/DeAndre/status/1277777538312478720
   2. https://twitter.com/SDinwiddie_25/status/1277782222402203653

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