The University of Arizona announced Sunday that several of the recent reported positive cases of COVID-19 within the athletic department were false positives.
Per Arizona Wildcats director of medical services Dr. Stephen Paul, the test results did not match the information received from contact tracing, prompting the department to re-test.
The new results showed that only two of the 13 student-athletes who tested positive were actually positive. They also showed that four of the 12 non-athletes that were tested were not positive, either.
The school attributes the incorrect results “to an instrumentation error and will perform a full audit of testing processes.