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Marlins moving to daily coronavirus testing following outbreak

By Zac Wassink | Last updated Jul 28, 2020 5:09 PM ET

In what may be a sign of things to come for the rest of MLB, the Miami Marlins confirmed on Tuesday the club is temporarily moving to daily coronavirus testing following an outbreak that paused campaigns for the Marlins and Philadelphia Phillies.

Today’s update: pic.twitter.com/9GpP318x9D
— Miami Marlins (@Marlins) July 28, 2020

As noted by Jim Salisbury of NBC Sports Philadelphia, current MLB protocols for the 60-game regular season involve testing players every other day.

Miami played the Phillies in Philadelphia over the weekend before no fewer than 17 members of the Marlins tested positive for the virus. Miami is now off until at least Sunday, while the Phillies hope to be cleared to play on Friday.

MLB announced on Tuesday that none of the non-Miami clubs have returned positive coronavirus test results since last Friday.

Zac Wassink

Zac Wassink is a longtime sports news writer and PFWA member who began his career in 2006 and has had his work featured on Yardbarker, MSN, Yahoo Sports and Bleacher Report. He is also a football and futbol aficionado who is probably yelling about Tottenham Hotspur at the moment and who chanted for Matt Harvey to start the ninth inning of Game 5 of the 2015 World Series at Citi Field. You can find him on X at @ZacWassink

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