Seattle Dragons XFL player who tested positive for coronavirus has been quarantined – USA TODAY

An unidentified XFL player has examined sure for coronavirus, the league confirmed to USA TODAY Sports actions on Saturday.

The league stated in an announcement that the player, who’s a member of the Seattle Dragons, reported his signs to crew scientific workers on Tuesday and became as soon as without prolong positioned in quarantine, the save he has remained within the days since.

The player obtained a take a look at for COVID-19 “as soon as imaginable,” in accordance with the screech, and obtained the conclude end result of the take a look at Friday.

In accordance to the league, the unidentified player participated in Seattle’s old two games in opposition to the Houston Roughnecks and St. Louis BattleHawks however became as soon as asymptomatic at the time.

“The league is alerting gamers, workers, vendors and partners associated with the Dragons, Roughnecks and BattleHawks,” the XFL stated in an announcement supplied to USA TODAY Sports actions on Saturday. “The XFL is monitoring the disclose closely and taking every measure compulsory based completely mostly on suggestions blueprint forth by the CDC.”

XFL spokesperson Stephanie Rudnick instructed USA TODAY Sports actions that the Dragons player is the correct player within the league known to obtain examined sure for the coronavirus as of Saturday morning.

She also reiterated that the XFL did not receive the Dragons player’s sure take a look at until after the league moved to suspend its season on Thursday evening. So a lot of skilled and college sports actions leagues obtain taken identical steps in most up-to-date days to late the unfold of the virus.

The coronavirus has contaminated extra than 113,000 other folks around the field and been declared a world pandemic by the World Health Group.

The Dragons player is the most fresh athlete to be recognized with the virus. Utah Jazz heart Rudy Gobert examined sure Wednesday evening, moments earlier than his crew became as soon as blueprint to play the Oklahoma City Allege. The data sent shockwaves in the end of the league, main to the cancellation of that sport and, soon thereafter, the suspension of the NBA season.

One among Gobert’s teammates, Donovan Mitchell, has also examined sure for coronavirus, as obtain a lot of members of the skilled soccer crew in Europe, at the side of Arsenal supervisor Mikel Arteta.

Contact Tom Schad at tschad@usatoday.com or on Twitter @Tom_Schad.