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OU athletics: One positive COVID-19 test among 703 tests among athletes and staffers last week

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NORMAN — OU athletes went through 584 COVID-19 tests and staffers went through 219 last week with only one positive result, the OU athletics department announced Monday.

Two active cases remain among athletes with none on the staff. Since testing began in July, 165 athletes and 10 staffers have tested positive with only two active cases among athletes remaining. The rest have recovered.

Five weeks ago, 9% of the tests have come back positive but that numbers has progressed since then, from 4% to 1% and the last two weeks to 0.2%.

OU did not release numbers broken down by sport.