Notre Dame announced Thursday that five football players have tested positive for COVID-19 while six others are in quarantine through contract tracing protocols.
Amid a COVID-19 outbreak that followed the return of the general student population to campus in recent weeks, the Notre Dame football program conducted two rounds of testing this week — 232 tests in all. Five returned positive and those players have been placed in isolation, the school said.
Because of the rising number of positive tests on campus — up to 304 since Aug. 3 — Notre Dame canceled football practice on Thursday.