Major League Baseball had four positive COVID-19 tests in last week

Major League Baseball announced on Friday that the league had four positive COVID-19 tests in the last week, two players and two staff members.

The league conducted 13,978 tests this past week and came out with a 0.03 percent positivity rate, according to the announcement.

Since spring training has begun, there has been a 0.02 percent positivity rate, with 17 positive tests emerging from the 72,751 conducted. 

The results come a week ahead of MLB’s opening day on April 1. 

When the MLB included monitoring and intake testing from before spring training, it has conducted 78,227 tests and had a 0.04 percent positivity rate with 33 positive tests among players and staff from 18 teams. 

The MLB has recently been using its stadiums as mass vaccination sites, with more than 1 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine being administered at MLB stadiums.

Baseball teams are split with how many fans they will allow into the stadium for games.

Texas Rangers is opening its stadium up at 100 percent capacity, while Chicago is only allowing 20 percent capacity at baseball stadiums on opening day. 

As vaccination numbers continue to go up, it is unclear how much the coronavirus will disrupt this year’s MLB season.